New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0877 - 0984

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

0877 - God's childhood.... end aim of life.... state of light....

0878 - Trials according to state of maturity.... deep faith in earthly hardship....

0879 - Wrestling of the soul.... prayer.... free will.... matter....

0880 - Checking this work.... obstacle and its removal....

0881 - Father words.... union with Him....

0882 - Miracle of creation.... similar formations.... repetition....

0883 - Love lives up.... love redeems....

0884 - Father words.... lightning ray.... guide....

0885 - Recognition of the truth only possible through love for God.... sharpness of mind....

0886 - Spiritual waste.... self-conceit.... shackles....

0887 - Power of prayer.... love power....

0888 - Thought currents.... Prerequisites for easy acceptance of spiritual knowledge....

0889 - Earthly events.... temporal phenomena.... inertia of the spirit....

0890 - Look into beyond.... faith - maturity.... free will....

0891 - Spirit of God.... divine original force.... love....

0892 - World of peace.... leader of the people....

0893 - New creations.... unchanged laws of nature.... synchronisation.... rhythm....

0894 - New task and activity in the beyond.... glory.... love....

0895 - Inner peace....

0896a - Exhortation to spread God’s word....

0896b - Exhortation to spread God’s word....

0897 - Divine grace....

0898 - Life without love.... early calling home....

0899 - Death hour....

0900 - Thought activity.... Spiritual good and spiritual power....

0901 - Checking this work.... receptivity for direct word....

0902 - Divine protection.... way of suffering.... prediction of world event....

0903 - Truth bearer.... prince of lies.... error....

0904 - Admonition to resist....

0905 - Task that requires the free will of the human being....

0906 - Forgiveness of sins....

0907 - Gagged will.... freedom of will....

0908 - Times of spiritual need.... help from above....

0909 - Flats in the father’s house.... state of happiness.... restlessness....

0910 - Spiritual seeing....

0911 - "My kingdom has come from above...."

0912 - Control of the creature.... strong will....

0913 - Examining the revelations.... most faithful devotion.... truth....

0914 - Shackles of the soul.... state of suffering.... Saulus - Paulus....

0915 - Faithlessness.... chaos.... distress of the earth.... helmsman....

0916 - Communication from a being from the beyond....

0917 - Spiritual exchange.... explanation of the otherworldly friends....

0918 - Knowledge alone not enough.... fulfilment of the commandments necessary....

0919 - Reminder to proclaim God’s word everywhere.... good shepherd....

0920 - Teaching activity in the beyond.... eagerness of imperfect beings to learn....

0921 - Reproduction of prophetic words.... task.... sounding voice....

0922 - Fulfilment of the commandments in the compulsory state....

0923 - Recognition of the wrong way of life cause for repentance.... helpful beings....

0924 - Blessings of deep faith.... fulfilment of prayer.... knowledge....

0925 - Weakness of the spirit.... reduction of the ability to receive....

0926 - Mental influence by co-responsible spiritual beings.... enlightenment by superior beings....

0927 - Lack of faith.... power of prayer.... coincidences....

0928 - Battle of faith.... method.... criticism.... God's protection....

0929 - Awakening from spiritual sleep.... light.... spiritual sun....

0930 - Mystery of the trinity.... God the father.... God the son....

0931 - Epitome of bliss.... redeeming the soul.... poor in spirit....

0932 - Voice of conscience.... redemptive work on earth....

0933 - School of the spirit.... earth life as a station of education....

0934 - Father words of love.... audible voice....

0935 - Angel passing through the world.... natural phenomena.... distress - worry.... poem

0936 - Life.... spirit from God.... natural law....

0937 - Truth.... willpower.... bridge through love....

0938 - Neglect of earthly work.... sloth.... idleness....

0939 - Consequences of spiritual backwardness....

0940 - Strength of faith.... God's help....

0941 - Refinement of the fellow human being.... rejection.... hour of recognition....

0942 - Vocabulary.... self-suggestion.... transcripts....

0943 - Unused earth life.... conscious work.... state in the hereafter....

0944 - Imperishable good.... prayer for the deceased.... power of love....

0945 - Collision of Earth and Sun .... Researchers .... The Earth’s core ....

0946 - Purity of heart.... happiness of union.... weakness of faith....

0947 - Hour of decision.... warning to remain faithful to the saviour....

0948 - Necessity of natural disasters.... God's will turned into form....

0949 - Need for natural disasters.... fighter of God

0950 - Prediction of world-shaking event.... mission of the servants of God....

0951 - Life is a struggle.... father words.... doubt....

0952 - Different living conditions no obstacle to the development of the soul....

0953 - Freedom of the spirit.... dream.... spiritual realm.... matter....

0954 - "Watch and pray...." temptations....

0955 - "Become like children...." the right relationship with the father....

0956 - Extraordinary proof of grace.... arrogance of the researchers....

0957 - Eruptions .... Work of Creation .... Researchers ....

0958 - Light state.... creation work.... creation....

0959 - Controversy for the sake of the name of Jesus.... flight from God.... earthly power....

0960 - Spiritual sun.... heavenly gardeners.... word of God....

0961 - Temporary desire influence of evil power....

0962 - Mental activity.... Heart.... Brain....

0963 - The prophets' predictions.... The return of Christ....

0964 - Last judgement.... divine justice....

0965 - Demons.... temptations.... love to matter....

0966 - Worldly activity.... spiritual striving and strength for it....

0967 - Concern of the spiritual friends.... efforts of the dark forces....

0968 - Jesus' suffering on the cross.... earthly body....

0969 - Father words....

0970 - Light state....

0971 - Way to the heights thorny.... God’s word strengthening....

0972 - Worldly rulers.... deep fall grace....

0973 - Content of the sendings.... communion....

0974a - Immortality.... Eternity.... Suicide....

0974b - Immortality.... Eternity.... Suicide....

0975 - Elimination of the God-opposing....

0976 - Divine will.... earthly measures.... serving all spiritual....

0977 - State of light ....

0978 - Earth way without God's help....

0979 - Developing spiritual abilities through constant practice....

0980 - Spiritual sun.... union.... marriage with God....

0981 - Announcement of an otherworldly friend....

0982 - Warning against worldly lures.... admonition for this work....

0983 - Truth.... will.... weak faith....

0984 - Prayer in faith protection against dark powers....

God's childhood .... end aim of life .... state of light ....

B.D. 0877 from April 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Don't forget that you are called to become children of God and that you shall also enter into the same rights as a child if you prove yourselves worthy to be called children of God .... And therefore it is necessary that you recognize what your activity will consist of one day in the beyond .... It is necessary in order to make you understand with what eagerness you should strive for your higher development and how you should make use of every opportunity which can earn you the childship to God. To be a child of God means to completely submit to the heavenly father’s will, to be devoted to Him in all love and humility and to set the final union with the father as your first aim, so that the father in heaven will likewise turn all His love towards the earthly child, instruct it in all wisdom and let it gain insight into His creation, and this for the purpose of ever further perfection, which is indispensable in order to be rightfully called a child of God. The lord has destined all His earthly children to become children of God, yet only very few grasp the true meaning of this word and do not know how unspeakably significant it is for the human being, establish the child’s relationship with the father as early as possible .... He will soon, through heartfelt devotion, receive a vivid representation of both the earthly task and the activity in the state of light and recognize the ultimate meaning and purpose .... The human being, with fullest knowledge of his emergence and higher development, will pursue his aim with tenacious resistance .... He will strive to become a child of God on earth in order to recognize his actual task in the beyond and likewise try to fulfil it with all his strength. For the fulfilment of the earthly task is not the only and final purpose of life and the entire embodiment of the human soul. Rather, this purpose is to be sought and found in pure spiritual striving .... And this, in turn, is intended to enable the human being to overlook the whole of creation in the beyond and to contribute to the revival of this creation in many ways. Once the earthly being has become certain that an eternal, unchanging deity has also assigned it a mission for later and that it can then still create and strive undiminished, but in a spiritual way, earthly life will take on a completely different form and will also be used much more beneficially for the soul's salvation, for it will recognize its final aim and henceforth endeavour to serve God as the eternal father and to prove itself worthy of God's childship ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trials according to state of maturity .... deep faith in earthly hardship ....

B.D. 0878 from April 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is true that the human being enters into a relationship of dependence on God as long as he walks on earth, in that his course of life is determined by events of all kinds, which he cannot oppose. Nevertheless, he is given the free will to act and think. By virtue of his free will he can also shape his life's destiny insofar as he can be spared trials if he takes the right path of his own will which leads back to God, and then the trials will not be so necessary and the human being will be the master of his own life and will have to fear less resistance. However, it remains to be considered that people only rarely live faithfully on earth according to divine commandments .... Everyone has to fight against cravings of some kind, and therefore there are few who make an effort to live righteously, which is why the earth and with it the human being cannot be left without testing. Only the conscious striving towards God, the desire for unification with Him, presupposes that spiritual maturity which no longer requires strokes of fate of a severe kind. And if these are permitted for the rest of humanity for educational reasons, the father in heaven protects His own from severe adversity and oppression, and thus even in the midst of the most dreadful events an earthly child can remain unaffected if only it has reached this state of spiritual maturity and consciously participates in humanity's redemption through works of love. Yet again and again the human being needs the strongest faith .... where he fears and doubts and does not stand in deepest faith, such events, which still have to come upon humanity, will in turn also cast dark shadows over the doubting human child .... For faith alone protects it from every danger .... And if the whole earth were in danger of shattering and perishing, deep faith is the supporting point which gives the right child of God support and does not let it get into adversity and danger. And in the hour of trouble, therefore, remember the words of the lord: "I am with you all days ...." If the lord Himself assures you of His support, then you should not despair in hours of adversity but always be faithful and fully trusting of help from above, and then every adversity will pass you by like a shadow .... And know, that you still have to struggle for your soul's state of maturity as long as the hardship and worries are tangibly pressing you .... The more devoted you are to the lord and saviour and long for union with Him, the more distant earthly suffering will remain for you, for the soul no longer needs it for its salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Wrestling of the soul .... prayer .... free will .... matter ....

B.D. 0879 from April 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The soul has to overcome unspeakable difficulties before it has become master of all matter. For it is in battle with matter until it consciously strives for help, and again, it will only do the latter when it has overcome its desire for earthly possessions, thus it has, as it were, already declared war on matter. But in order to be able to overcome it needs the support of helpful spiritual beings which it makes serviceable to itself through prayer. But it still has to struggle a lot and has to be restlessly active itself, for the soul can only mature through its own work, and the support of spiritual friends only consists of conveying the necessary strength to the struggling soul, but which it now has to utilize itself in realization of its earthly task. Thus a complete transformation is undoubtedly within every person's power once the will has decided to do so .... People sometimes believe that they cannot do anything themselves and only ever have to carry out God's will, and again it should be pointed out that the human being is not subject to any coercion from the divine creator in a spiritual respect, that instead all freedom of will is left to him if it concerns his soul's salvation. His thoughts will indeed be directed by the spiritual side towards spiritual problems, he will receive enlightenment in many questions, yet his will will be completely free to decide whether and to what extent the transmitted thoughts will be accepted and taken to heart. And likewise, the human being is free to gain the necessary strength through prayer in order to meet the most difficult demands. Consequently, the human soul undoubtedly has to fulfil a great task which consists of taking care of its transformation so that it will lift itself out of the darkness of spirit .... so that it will liberate itself from the fetters of matter, and this through love .... it must constantly be active to shape itself .... it must reject everything ignoble, it must strive for perfection and always be mindful of the fact that it only has a short time at its disposal which should serve its transformation .... it must also know that it is at the greatest disadvantage if the time on earth has not brought it maturity, and therefore only strive for one thing, to be constantly active to constantly wrestle and detach itself from everything that appears desirable to it in order to finally conquer matter and thereby free itself from every shackle which prevents it from ascending into light spheres ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Checking this work .... obstacle and its removal ....

B.D. 0880 from April 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the utmost perfection of form of the sentence structure of this scripture and at the same time in its profound spiritual content, the one who examines the work should be able to recognize the divine working and measure the divine love by it, which in this way draws close to the people on earth. To a certain extent the conclusion can be drawn that there is no obstacle which separates people on earth from the heavenly father if it is not erected by them .... and that this obstacle can be removed at any time by the human being's active will and the father in heaven reveals Himself to him. The most peculiar counter-arguments and objections will be made and people will try to find a natural explanation because they consider such a connection with the spiritual world, which can be established by people themselves, to be absolutely impossible, yet anyone who is of sound mind .... who lives in union with God himself, will also recognize the voice of the one Who guides and directs him. If he recognizes that nothing in life is coincidental he will also recognize the working of spiritual strength in divine guidance .... he will accept it without hesitation if he commends himself and his soul to the father in heaven and does not presume to judge on his own strength .... With God everything, without Him nothing .... Whoever chooses Him as his guide through earthly life will truly be guided correctly and will not be in danger of going wrong, and thus every step is predefined and leads safely to the aim. People often fail to recognize the extraordinary evidence of divine love because they lack the power of judgement which, however, can only be attained through profound faith. Anyone who is still blind in spirit because faith and love are dead in him will never be able to pass a just judgment, for he is still too attached to the world and only grasps what is part of the world but not the divine mission, which is purest spiritual knowledge and therefore only recognizable to the spiritually striving, fully believing earthly child, which lives on earth in love for the father and should be strengthened and refreshed by Him for this path of life. For the father hears when His child calls to Him and does not let its prayer go unheard ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Father words .... union with Him ....

B.D. 0881 from April 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Whenever you send your call to Me I will answer your prayer. And your soul felt the benefit which brought it My nearness and gratefully received it. Everything that pays tribute to the world is excluded from this benefit, they are satisfied with earthly pleasures and don't desire My love and My closeness and are therefore not worthy of being made happy by Me. But I will always remember all others .... who make Me their confidant, who desire to stand in My sun of grace and seek direct contact with Me, these already possess Me, for their love unites them with Me, and anyone who loves Me with all his heart also receives Me into his heart. Whereas the most glorious gift on earth cannot come close to providing the soul with such happiness as the union with Me, which is of eternal duration. For I no longer let go of those I seize with My love, and from then on they walk under My love. And I desire nothing more than to possess their hearts completely, for they are My children and as such shall love their father in order to be loved by Him again for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Miracle of creation .... similar formations .... repetition ....

B.D. 0882 from April 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Visualise the greatness and majesty of divine creation, and then look more closely at the inner composition of a seed which, as tiny as it is, contains creation in infinite miniaturization .... This is incomprehensible to you humans, for you cannot even remotely grasp how strangely the composition of all miracles of creation again leans on the greatest work of creation .... how the same thing appears again and again, only in different proportions which, however, are again in harmony with each other. With physical eyes you can already see in plant life how often the smallest forms have similarities with the creations of nature. How much more would you recognize with the spiritual eye the same law in all tiny creations, from the grain of sand to the animal world .... that everything again and again clearly recognizably confirms a certain building work, again and again in the same relationship to each other and repeating itself innumerable times. In every work of creation God's omnipotence and wisdom has visibly come into operation .... Looking at such a work of art only gives rise to the thought in the human being that he is not remotely capable on earth of gaining an insight into the whole of creation, but that he is only allowed this insight to a very small extent and that he is then only able to see the outer shell with bodily eyes, but not the extremely fine construction which only illustrates the miracle of every work of creation. A snowflake is often a cause for reflection, for it is already such an artfully assembled thing that it is worthy of closer observation, and a structure of form that dissolves again in a few moments .... Whoever looks around him with open eyes in nature will not tire of observing the manifold wonders of divine creation, but only with spiritual eyes will he recognize the meaningful composition of the whole and then stand before even greater wonders. It is futile effort and therefore does not lead to complete success to try to analyse all these miracles in a purely scientific way .... people only ever succeed within a certain limit, yet to exceed this limit is only possible in a spiritual way and will neither be humanly proven nor acknowledged, for ultimately everything spiritual can only be recognized with the spiritual eye, and the divine creator has only given people the gift of seeing rough matter with the physical eyes ans letting what is visible to them affect the spirit in such a way that it stimulates it to think .... And then it is solely up to him to educate himself in such a way that he can penetrate matter and, as it were, also see the inner components in their composition, form and nature through the outer shell in order to then, overwhelmed by God's love, wisdom and omnipotence, love and praise Him for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love lives up .... love redeems ....

B.D. 0883 from April 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the realization of his earthly task the human being will always take the right path, for it will always be his endeavour to make use of all means at his disposal which the lord's grace grants him and thus also to use earthly life correctly. Now all striving upwards on earth only has the right value when love determines all action and thinking, for only love enlivens, yet without love every action remains a dead beginning, i.e. it is dead for eternity, even if it earns temporal reward on earth. Love must fill the heart and move the will to be active, then all activity on earth has the success that the soul's state of maturity takes its progress, that, as it were, only now the soul draws the benefit from what the body does. And since it is only a matter of shaping the soul on earth, since this is the final purpose of the whole earthly life, to be able to leave the earthly body of flesh as complete as possible when it dies, the greatest attention must of necessity be paid to the earthly task .... The human being must be mindful of the fact that he himself has striven for his embodiment and has entered earthly life with the firm intention to use it in such a way that all slags will be lost and leaving the body in all purity in order to unite himself with the divine spirit .... It must also not forget that higher development is never possible without earthly life and that it therefore also has to willingly accept all difficulties in order to place itself into that state which results in liberation from all matter. It must unhesitatingly devote itself to the eternal deity and thus bring love within itself to its highest development .... it must love everything that has come forth from God, as the eternal creator of heaven and earth, and through this love it must now work for the benefit and best of its neighbour and for the glory of God .... The more intensively it strives for union with the divine saviour, the closer the saviour will be to this soul, and it can expect without any doubt that it will become a true child of God and one day in eternity will also find infinite happiness through Him as a child of God and will be granted divine fatherly grace forever .... for anyone who loves and does all his works in this love is entitled to the glory of God and is eternally in His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Father words .... lightning ray .... guide ....

B.D. 0884 from April 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

I want to teach everywhere and awaken people's spirit, for the need is unspeakably great. Countless souls are constantly in danger who disregard the word of God and do not account for where their faithlessness shall lead. They remain in darkness of spirit and pay no attention to the bright ray that could bring them light. And so it is time to send a ray of lightning so that they will be frightened in the deep night and desire light. A new time shall dawn and My word shall be made accessible to people in all purity and understandable to everyone who desires truth. The sun of the spirit shall rise and spread brightest light, and anyone who wants to escape darkness shall be allowed to walk in the light .... Therefore hear My voice: Heed the signs which proclaim the approach of the new time .... and remember My words that all your striving is in vain if you do not see in Me your saviour from all adversity .... Whoever chooses Me as his guide will truly go through earthly life correctly guided, but whoever wants to reject Me will soon lack the knowledge where to turn .... He will get into great adversity, and earthly goods will not offer him a substitute for what he gives up .... for only I can give him the strength to live, and the soul's adversity will be indescribable if I don't provide it. And in this adversity I will remember those who are willing and give them a visible sign of My love. The whole of humanity will take notice and behold this sign, and it will be left up to everyone to interpret it according to his will .... Whoever recognizes Me in it will have his soul saved, but whoever also rejects this sign or pays little attention to it, his spirit will only remain more densely enveloped and no ray of light will shine for him .... He will remain in the night and his soul will perish. Yet I will give great strength to My own, they shall become strong in spirit and never deny Me .... the visible sign shall be a confirmation of My care for them, they shall recognize My greater than great love by it and rise up by it in the tribulations which will approach them from outside .... They shall not fear anything the world could prepare for them but in utmost trust hand themselves over to their divine saviour and redeemer Who holds their fate in His hands and does not allow them to suffer damage to their soul. Anyone who carries Me in his heart will pass all tests and grow stronger in the face of adversity and emerge victorious from all battles which apply to his soul, for he has chosen Me as his guide ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognition of the truth only possible through love for God .... sharpness of mind ....

B.D. 0885 from April 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Thus hear the voice of the Most High: The strength of My word will flow through all who willingly hand themselves over to it, and thus the world is also unable to pass the right judgment because it is listened to and examined without inner life and without love for Me. And thus people certainly desire clarity but can only receive it with a believing heart, for where the world and its interests are placed in the foreground the soul is poorly minded of it .... The further the human being distances himself from Me the more difficult it will be for him to recognize the truth, and he will, as it were, scrutinize without spiritual assistance, for he does not demand it in his will of rejection. Intellectual acuity alone is not suitable to test something which, however, is immediately recognized as truth by the profoundly devout person, for the divine spirit has come alive in the latter, whereas the former is still in deep night and spiritual darkness. If you want to recognize Me, you must be with Me but not against Me. Your will is decisive .... Your lack of knowledge can certainly be remedied if you ask for right knowledge, but where you refuse you are still far away from right knowledge. Love moved the son of man to sacrifice Himself for humanity, and this love will now also appear again and give light where light is desired .... And all can stand in the light if they don't think themselves too sublime to pray for it. No human being has the right to make assertions which not only touch upon the earthly tangible, for without My help he lacks the right knowledge to do so .... Earthly knowledge is not enough to solve the last great question, yet with My help this area will also be opened up to you and you may confidently accept the explanations given by Me as purest truth, yet you must first have the will to make contact with Me, then you may also draw from the source of eternal truth. You all need strengthening from above, but this cannot be offered to you on the human side, no matter how great the effort is to scientifically penetrate the unknown kingdom .... And thus human knowledge alone will not suffice to examine a work of strange origin if you don't request My help for it .... but cannot do so if you don't want to acknowledge Me. I only have one aim in mind, to restore faith to humanity .... nor do I want to condemn anyone who has been wrongly guided so far, I only want to erect a barrier where spiritual decay has already progressed so far that the human being believes himself to be stronger than the eternal deity .... where he believes that the highest competent authority is his intellect .... where every attempt to instruct another person is unsuccessful, and such a person can only be instructed in such a way that he is confronted by his own powerlessness and turns to a higher being in search of help .... I will always listen to a plea in profound humility, yet if this plea applies to earthly possessions and the only necessary thing, the care for spiritual possessions, is disregarded, this desire cannot be pleasing to Me and I cannot give My blessing where the spirit is not respected. How shall the ray of light of spiritual truth penetrate a heart which only strives for earthly things, and how shall such a person make contact with Him without profound faith in the redeemer so that he will be guided into truth? The human being must always remain aware of his own inadequacy and in this take refuge in the great spiritual strength, and if he does so in all humility and in the will to then also help his fellow human beings through his enlightenment, if he allows himself to be guided without resistance and wants to be a righteous servant of God and his fellow human beings, then he will also be given the right realization, only the motive of wanting to know must not be ignoble, no earthly interests may be decisive but only the will to thereby serve the soul and to help alleviate the spiritual hardship on earth. Then the blessing from above will not fail to materialize, and those who seriously desire the truth will recognize it ....

Amen

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Spiritual waste .... self-conceit .... shackles ....

B.D. 0886 from April 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

So pay attention to the words that come to you today: All spirit that has separated itself from God in self-conceit can only be purified through torment, and indeed it will now be convinced of its inherently helpless state, which stands in blatant contradiction to its self-conceit, which has brought about its apostasy from the eternal deity. Nothing else can bring about the return to the father of the universe than the walk through thousands of years of fetters which make him aware of his powerlessness and yet let the desire for final liberation from these fetters grow ever stronger, so that he then even takes the earthly fetters upon himself with full will for a time in the realization that embodiment on earth is the only possibility to become free of these fetters. And thus the spiritual being has every opportunity to improve the unworthy state, to atone for the offence against the eternal deity in an indescribably long time, so to speak, and at the same time to take the feasible paths which lead to unification with the eternal deity again. When the human being imagines how dreadfully agonizing the distance from the father is for a divine being and earthly life is often not used in any way to reduce this distance, but he only entered into embodiment on earth for this purpose, when the return to the father cannot be achieved in any other way, when, despite this, countless beings keep seeking embodiment again and again with the intention of using earthly life correctly and willingly submit to every trial of life, it will soon be understandable why the lord is so extremely loving towards the earthly children and would like to make their path of life easier and for this reason sends them nourishment from above in order to guide the spirit out of God back to its original purpose. And all striving for divinity is blessed from above so that the human being will be protected from error and recognize the right truth ....

Amen

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Power of prayer .... love power ....

B.D. 0887 from April 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The power of prayer is not to be misjudged if the human being wants to cover the path of higher development in the shortest possible time, for prayer is the conscious connection with the heavenly father, prayer is the conscious utilisation of divine grace. Through prayer the relationship with the father is established and humility, faith and childlike trust are thereby expressed. And prayer is the surest help, for the lord considers everyone who turns to Him in prayer in the soul's adversity. And thus the human being completes his path of life in the right way and has not spent earthly life in vain, for he fulfils his task with divine strength, which he has always used through prayer. Thus, on the one hand, full trust in help is necessary to fulfil the earthly task completely, but on the other hand, the will to make oneself worthy of this divine help, for he who takes should also give .... He who makes use of God's help should also show the father in heaven through his own actions and thoughts that it is his will to serve Him and to live according to His will. Prayer, which ascends from the heart to the father, always appeals for strength from God, and the soul will feel grateful when this strength flows to the earthly child in such great measure that the striving for perfection becomes easy and also leads to success. For God constantly gives if only His gift is requested. However, anyone who does not need divine help, who believes he can get by without all grace from heaven, is weak because the earthly burden weighs him down and he lacks the strength to lift himself up. It is the lord's will that you make use of this strength, for it is at your unrestricted disposal, yet you cannot be provided with this strength if your will rejects it or does not desire it because you do not have the faithful trust that your path of life can be immensely successful as a result .... And thus the struggle of a person who does not want to acknowledge the power of prayer will be incredibly difficult, and he can only perfect himself through an extraordinary activity in love. But without the conscious connection with his creator this is an unspeakably difficult start, for the strength of love in him has to become so strong, and thus he has to unconsciously draw on the strength from God by doing of his own accord what is pleasing to God and thereby be blessed by the lord and granted His grace. Yet anyone who lives in love will soon recognize the father .... And anyone who has found the father will ruefully remember the unused time when too little strength was imparted to his soul through his resistance, for the time on earth is only short and should be utilized in the most imaginable way in order to reach the state of maturity in the shortest possible time and to be able to leave earthly life as a being of light one day ....

Amen

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Thought currents .... Prerequisites for easy acceptance of spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 0888 from April 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In order to perceive the thought currents clearly and distinctly, the external human being must be completely governed by the spirit; the separation from the earth must have taken place and the union with the beyond must have been established, only then will the human being's thoughts be able to move in spiritual spheres, and the voice from the spiritual world will sound distinctly and audibly in the person's heart. However, as long as the body is held captive by earthly fetters which prevent the soul's escape from the body into spiritual spheres, the spirit in the person cannot become active. Therefore, a long struggle must precede first in order to achieve this detached state .... in order for the body to achieve a state of being gentle and patient and of allowing the soul's every flight into higher spheres. Thus, the first condition in order to be able to accept spiritual knowledge easily and without effort is that the spirit must not feel impeded by anything. It certainly requires considerable self-denial in order to accomplish, yet the pleasure of the reward will be accordingly great. All opportunities will remain unused if the expansion of the divine spirit in the human being is not taken care of first. People's spirit will forever remain gagged if they take no action to liberate their soul for good .... As yet the soul is still constrained and therefore cannot grasp the spiritual deeply enough, thus it requires all your will to desire receipt from above so that your will can be complied with; nevertheless, the soul can liberate itself much sooner where love for the divine Redeemer flares up in a heart, for that is where the spirit clearly strives for unity with the eternal Deity. But where the writer or recipient is seized by a certain spiritual lethargy it will be difficult for him to establish contact and it must, in a manner of speaking, be laboriously achieved through perseverance, otherwise it can never lead to the goal which, however, should be all people's ultimate striving. And the spirit will understandably be in serious difficulties, for it will be prevented from reigning and taking effect according to its purpose ....

Amen

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Earthly events .... temporal phenomena .... inertia of the spirit ....

B.D. 0889 from April 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

With unchanging strength the beings in the beyond consider you, and thus they impart an announcement of importance to you today: At certain intervals of time the father in heaven directs events on earth into ever new directions .... events occur which overturn everything that had gone before .... inventions of all kinds cause other ways of life .... people pursue other aims and thus the human being's train of thought is changed in a certain way .... science always has new areas to research and thus innumerable changes come about which are precisely intended to influence people's thinking. There is a wise reason for this. In the usual regularity of life, mental activity would very soon tire and such lukewarmness of spirit would set in that the soul would be in grave danger ....

Everything that happens in the world keeps the spirit active and never lets it fall into inactivity. The human being will arm himself with all his power of resistance when the events storm him like surging waves. He will have to fight for his earthly well-being and that will keep him tirelessly active. And again, only an active person can also be spiritually active at the same time, for divine strength will be inherent in him as soon as his earthly activity is aimed at reducing any deficiencies and he thus takes upon himself the work for his neighbour's well-being out of love for him. In times of spiritual hardship the lord resorts to all means, and it is not to be feared that the father in heaven will let the prayer of a person demanding advice and help from Him go unheard. The father demands profound inner faith and an undoubted belief .... He will then also bless those who do not take offence at the phenomena of the time, but rather devoutly and faithfully fulfil their assigned task at all times, draw the greatest spiritual benefit from all events and always remember that the world is only a means to an end and that only a pure spiritual attitude protects the earthly child from sinking into chaos, for its field of activity is assigned to it according to the soul's need, and thus a constant change of all events has to occur so that the earthly child will not tire of working on itself and its soul and find all spiritual stimulation in daily life, so that it will not fall into spiritual sluggishness but be industrious and striving, so that it shall bear everything with surrender which the eternal deity has wisely imposed on earth and also its inhabitants for the best of their souls. For no event, no matter how small, is without purpose, it is only little or not at all recognized by the human being in his earthly condition ....

Amen

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Look into beyond .... faith - maturity .... free will ....

B.D. 0890 from April 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

A wise decision by the heavenly father denies the earthly children a conscious vision of the beyond, for the complete knowledge of this would impair people's freedom of will, since their striving would now be based on a state of compulsion and therefore a completely free spiritual being would not be able to develop, but this is absolutely necessary if it is to be able to fulfil its eternal purpose in the beyond. Therefore it is also not permissible that people, as long as they live on earth in blindness of spirit and an immature state of soul, are given a clear picture of the work of the spiritual beings in the beyond, for this would be just as unsuitable to stimulate the human being to work on his soul. Therefore the announcements are also given in such a way that they do not oblige the human being to accept them but it is entirely up to the individual's will to accept them as truth or to reject them. All efforts of the spiritual beings in this respect only extend to an earthly being which is already in a certain state of maturity, so that it will pay more attention to its inner life and its striving upwards will be facilitated accordingly. Then a certain faith is already a prerequisite, for without it it would be completely impossible to receive spiritual gifts, only the temporary weakness of faith still has to be overcome, yet the freedom of will remains completely untouched, for its will is already active in itself of its own accord if the earthly child cultivates such a connection from the beyond to earth and endeavours to maintain it. However, it is unspeakably valuable for the earthly children to make use of all gifts arising in this way .... to accept them in profound faith and consequently to likewise draw from a life- and grace-giving source .... Again, faith is a prerequisite, for such gifts will only be received by a believing person, thus faith will never ever be a compulsory state, whereas such a gift from heaven still appears unacceptable and doubtful, if not completely unbelievable, to the faithless person. For there is a boundary between heaven and earth which can only be crossed by a person of profound faith. Consider this when you consider the peculiarity of such gifts .... know that the father in heaven considers everyone according to need, according to worthiness and according to merit .... but that He would also like to bestow His grace upon people who do not yet recognize Him, that it is therefore also possible for the spiritually immature person, to make use of the evidence of divine activity given in love and kindness in order to attain maturity of soul .... but that he must be free to shape himself in complete free will into what is his final destiny .... as a being of light which, as a child of God, has to fulfil the most glorious task in eternity ....

Amen

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Spirit of God .... divine original force .... love ....

B.D. 0891 from April 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

All spirit has come forth from Me and all spirit shall return to Me .... And all earthly wisdom is of no avail where My love is active, where the spirit of God has once been awakened .... for I have all power in heaven and on earth and what I will comes to pass. If I want all creatures to obey Me, they will not be able to oppose Me, but then the being would no longer be free. But if the human being wants to come to Me himself, I can take hold of him and draw him to Me and he will truly no longer want to return .... The longing for Me will increase immeasurably and I will fulfil it and kindle all love in his heart, for it is My spirit which longs for Me, it is My living creation to which I gave life and which I love with all My strength without beginning and without end. Take this well and try to understand the intimacy of My love .... What has been Mine from eternity must remain Mine for all eternity, for it is divine elementary strength which let you come into being, and nothing can get lost in the universe but only be separated from the father of the universe for an infinitely long time. And with longing love I await everything that has gone forth from Me. I let creation come into being for the purpose of final reunification with the beings which are exceedingly dear to Me .... I hear the slightest call and am ready to help where My creations desire their father and creator, I gave Myself to My children and made the greatest sacrifice for them through My death on the cross .... I offer them all graces and guide and direct them and assure them of My protection in every adversity and danger, for My love cannot leave them .... And I wrestle for every soul and don't want to abandon them to the evil power without a fight, for in My love I see all their suffering if they fall prey to it .... And those who love Me again are My children in all truth and My fatherly care applies to them without ceasing. I want to give those who serve Me the delights of heaven to taste while they are still on earth, and if they feel Me Myself in their hearts they will be indissolubly united with Me and unspeakably happy while they are still on earth. For I will take possession of them and they will never walk alone, even though they will be abandoned and rejected by the world and its servants .... They have chosen Me and chosen Me as their leader, and I will reward their love and draw close to them and remain with them for all eternity ....

Amen

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World of peace .... leader of the people ....

B.D. 0892 from April 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the world of peace only one law applies, which is love .... Whoever willingly submits to this law is in God and God in him .... Whoever strives to give peace to the world must live in love, i.e. to constantly endeavour to help, to comfort, to alleviate hardship, to ward off oppressors and to do everything in order to awaken love in people again, and this is the greatest necessity in order to restore people to true life, for spiritual knowledge is only rooted in love .... Only someone who loves will be able to receive the spiritual nourishment the lord God offers people. People will therefore first have to live in love before they are worthy to receive .... and first have to be active in love in order to recognize the truth of it. Whoever serves the people as a leader must, as it were, exemplify the right life, he must be active in love and only ever let love become the motive of all action. For whatever he undertakes must never have the opposite effect; it must not give rise to hatred or unkindness, for then the life of the soul of the one who persists in hatred would be endangered. Truthfulness and justice must guide action and love must condition everything. He who lives in constant threat cannot be open to love, he will go through life in bitterness, and this cannot be beneficial to the soul .... But he who gives to people, and does so constantly, who does everything to win people's true love, also awakens love continually and will also conquer all hatred and all discord, so that a world of peace will surround those who are truly willing to love and give. Man therefore has the right to apply the standard to the individual's way of acting, whether and to what extent this produces love or only seeks certain advantages in earthly relations. Anyone who fulfils all his tasks and does not seek his own advantage .... who is only ever driven by love for the people to be active for their good, his deeds must also have such an effect that a state of calm, a deep inner happiness takes hold of people, they remember their leader's heart with love and can now devote themselves to the care of their inner life in all tranquillity without having to fear being in constant danger, which is caused by greed, envy and unkindness and results in the very decline of everything spiritual. And by this you will know whether the world of peace is in you and around you and what your inner life is like, and you will be able to judge whether the tasks of a leader are fulfilled correctly for the blessing and salvation of his people ....

Amen

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New creations .... unchanged laws of nature .... synchronisation .... rhythm ....

B.D. 0893 from May 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You do not know how great God's creation is .... how unspeakably extensive and varied the lord of heaven and earth has shaped this creation and how new creations keep coming, filling inanimate space and again calculated for the further development of living beings. It is the ultimate purpose of all creation to lead the spiritual closer to God, and this will remain so for all eternity. For it is the creator's will to maintain what He created .... What once came forth from God in all perfection must have the same state of light in order to be able to return to its place of origin again. Furthermore, it must have lived through every station of development, it must have travelled through every work of creation in order to one day be able to let the same formations of creation come into being, since this is the task of all beings of light in eternity. Thus God has set an aim for the being to strive towards. He has made this aim dependent on a certain degree of maturity and in turn made the state of maturity dependent on his spiritual striving .... And therefore, again, all creation only ever serves the purpose of stimulating spiritual striving, and this the more attention is paid to creation and its many thousands of miracles. Whoever passes by them dully and blindly, his spirit can never be awakened, for he still dwells too much on this earth with body and soul and does not ask for the outcome and the end .... Whoever, however, contemplates the divine creation and realizes that centuries and millennia do not bring about a change in the laws of nature .... Whoever lets his gaze wander over the infinite variations of the divine creation and then considers again that everything is alive .... then, considering this thought, the question must also arise for him, for what reason is the purpose of all life on earth .... He cannot answer this question with empty phrases if he is serious about answering the question, but he must pursue it and can ultimately only answer it spiritually and exhaustively .... for the course of the world remains eternally the same, the laws of nature are likewise not subject to any temporal change, it is and remains, as it has been from eternity .... always in the same rhythm, in the same regularity and in unchanged synchronization, as it is the will of the creator from eternity. And people on earth are powerless in the face of these laws. They can certainly make use of unexplored forces and do so to a great extent, however, they can by no means cause this strength to have a different effect at their own discretion, they cannot arbitrarily utilize a strength for an activity other than that determined by God through the laws of nature, instead, they must adapt themselves to these laws of nature in the most exact way if the strength is not to be expressed in a damaging way. And every infringement punishes itself, for every non-observance of the laws of nature results in the destruction of all matter, but never in the building up and increase of everything that appears visibly or tangibly to him, which is in the human interest. The human being is already creatively active on earth but must always submit himself to the divine creator and His will in all actions .... His task in the beyond, on the other hand, is to constantly form new structures through his will in the knowledge of all laws of creation and their purposefulness, which, however, completely corresponds to God's will in the state of light .... and to see in this creating and creating a blissful state which is far more blissful than your human judgement. And in order to achieve this final aim you should be constantly active on earth and strive for perfection with all your strength ....

Amen

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New task and activity in the beyond .... glory .... love ....

B.D. 0894 from May 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

To become free from all matter is the task of earthly existence. If the lord has given you this task and you make use of your earthly life and strive to fulfil the task with all your will, you will become free from everything that is impure and thus shape yourselves into a being which, after discarding the body of flesh, may truly pass into the kingdom of the beyond in light and brightness. And only now will the soul be introduced into the new activity, and this according to its ability to again spiritually influence the beings which still dwell in the darkness of spirit, both on earth as well as in the beyond. The new task corresponds completely to the previous activity in spiritual life. The soul will have to be extraordinarily active again in order to be able to fulfil its waiting work in the beyond, and therefore it is of extraordinary advantage if its life on earth was likewise a life of work, if it also always made use of it earthly and never gave in to physical indolence .... for much more diligent work is to begin, after all, it is a matter of fighting spiritual hardship and bringing help wherever the soul is not properly respected and thus an agonizing state is its lot. On the other hand, the being will be offered such wonderful glories in the beyond that the child's relationship with the father will find tangible reward .... All the happiness of love will flow through the being, and its devotion to the saviour will therefore mean unlimited happiness, yet the poor struggling souls will always be thought of in equal measure, and just as the soul now receives love from God, it also constantly passes on love .... it turns it towards those who are still without realization and in turn seeks to ease their torment and likewise draw them up into the regions of light and peace. And therefore nothing is unsuccessful which has its origin in love .... nothing is done in vain which had love as its driving force, and love inevitably has to have a redeeming effect, both on earth as well as in the beyond ....

Amen

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Inner peace ....

B.D. 0895 from May 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Enlightenment of the spirit is inner peace .... He who has been enlightened is seized by a feeling of security and tranquillity, for it is he who has already partly overcome matter and only turns to the spiritual. And thus he will never let himself be disturbed by earthly things to the extent that he goes through life peacelessly and impatiently, on the contrary, he will find himself in the happy state that nothing touches him unusually any more. He will certainly live through everything but with little involvement of the heart .... he will also not suffer particularly from events which would otherwise have shaken his whole being, on the contrary, he will accept everything as a side effect of daily life which is only intended for him by the divine father for the purpose of further perfection. And nothing can disturb the inner peace which only becomes more and more tangible the more the earthly child endeavours to fulfil the will of the father in heaven. For now the soul no longer has to suffer so much under the pressure of matter, it lives according to its true destiny and the battles of the opposing power are no longer to be feared so much, therefore the soul is in a state of rest with regard to all earthly events, while it, however, is ever more spiritually active. Earth and its desires are in contradiction with spiritual life and both can never be fulfilled at the same time. Earthly life with its demands will also always cause restlessness and peacelessness, whereas spiritual life and striving gives the soul a state of rest, i.e. only towards earthly experiences. This will always have the effect that the human being's spirit will be insensitive to all earthly difficulties and the human being can fulfil his actual task without disturbance as long as he desires to be allowed to dwell in spiritual regions. He will also be relieved of a certain worry, for spiritual support is granted to him in all adversities and worries, both of the body as well as of the soul, and he will well perceive this support, and his inner peace will only rarely be disturbed by incidents which would otherwise have shaken him out of his calm. It is mostly worldly worries which worry the human being and make earthly life unbearable for him, however, anyone who faithfully offers them up to the father in heaven, who asks Him in the spiritual realization that He is lord over all events, who therefore transfers these worries into the spiritual kingdom, will visibly be released from them, and the peace of heart will have the upper hand again and what seems to be a burden to the earthly child and could impair his spiritual striving will be banished. And thus all your striving should only ever be directed towards considering your spirit .... you should pay no attention to earthly demands but only ever long for and request the brightness of the spirit, and the heavenly father will carefully guide you through earthly life and keep everything difficult away from you so that you will find and keep inner peace in order to be able to promote spiritual life all the more diligently and thus lead your soul into the state of light ....

Amen

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Exhortation to spread God’s word ....

B.D. 0896a from May 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Without hesitation you shall carry out what you have resolved to do. It is the work of a moment which can destroy everything that has existed up to now .... but a short period of time can also suffice to awaken spiritual substances in a person, and thus every day should be used for the spreading of the divine word .... Everything depends on the will of the human being, whether the days on earth pass usefully or unused. Therefore, the concern for the salvation of your fellow human beings' souls should also constantly spur you on to diligent work, and nothing should stop you or make you fearfully hesitate, for where the spirit from God was at work divine strength is also at work and protects those who faithfully entrust themselves to the lord and saviour from every danger. What was given for the salvation of humanity's soul shall now also find its way into many a human heart .... Therefore rely on the help from above, and provide the ignorant or those hungry for knowledge with spiritual refreshment so that their thoughts will wander into the beyond and demand an answer from there, which will then also be joyfully given to them, and if this task is now no longer doubtful to you, also dispense with it in the shortest possible time, and consider without fear those who are inclined towards your work and still desire clarity on earth. For all is the work of the lord, and nothing happens without His permission .... (interruption).

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Exhortation to spread God’s word ....

B.D. 0896b from May 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You shall partake of all spiritual strength and your striving shall be crowned with success. And I will show you the way again and again, as often as you take refuge in Me .... Consider every event as a pointer from above and don't let your spirit tire of rising into spheres of light, for only from there can enlightenment come to you. An indescribable darkness still surrounds the souls of your fellow human beings, and help shall be offered to them so that they strive for the right realization. And so I now want that the erring souls are thought of without interruption and that all means are used to bring them redemption. The further course of life will prove to you what a benefit right knowledge can already be on earth and how an inconceivable desire for truth is awakened in the human being if only he receives the impetus and has taken a direction of thought which is beneficial for his soul. And for this reason the earthly burden shall also become easier to bear for people who have their salvation at heart. To fulfil the commandment of neighbourly love correctly also requires concern for the soul's salvation, for alleviating earthly hardship is certainly a task in earthly life but only of deepest significance when spiritual hardship is controlled at the same time. People are helpless and abandoned, even if they live an apparently comfortable life on earth, as long as spiritual spheres remain closed to them and their souls are still shrouded in darkness. And so, no matter how lightless their spiritual state may be, they will be offered the right light and also spread a bright glow, and blessed are those to whom this glow spreads comfort and who desire to continue to stand in the light, they will become enlightened and the spiritual adversity will be remedied ....

Amen

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Divine grace ....

B.D. 0897 from May 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Hear the divine voice: In the struggle with himself man must grow stronger and seek to pass all tests of life. Spiritual strength is at his disposal at all times and he is constantly surrounded by spiritual friends who are ready to help and only await his call. And thus your thoughts may only ever turn to them in supplication and you will escape every adversity and danger .... And now receive: Divine grace and with it the mercy and love of the father in heaven are available to every person to such an extent that he can become completely free from all earthly fetters and every desire which still applies to material life. The father in heaven gives and gives, and His grace is not exhausted, only it must not be carelessly passed by on the human side, but it must be consciously desired and received. Only then will the earthly child be able to cope with every challenge, for it is not the sole conqueror of it but the divine strength itself communicates itself to the earthly child and the human being is able to easily overcome what previously seemed insurmountable to him. The human being cannot grasp the term 'grace' in its deepest meaning .... It is such an extraordinary bestowal of divine help, it is a continuous transmission of spiritual strength, it is the evidence of everlasting love and divine mercy. And if the human being lives in God's grace he is surrounded by invisible protection .... he desires the granting of divine strength and is, as it were, seized by it, so that all his actions and thoughts are determined by divine will .... God's grace helps him to be active in God's will .... Only a fully believing human being can consciously receive God's grace because he believes in God, in His strength and His direct connection with people and in the great love which thus expresses itself through the granting of grace .... He desires and receives and thus takes the outpouring of divine love into himself, and this, in turn, must strengthen him himself and increase his faith and love for the creator and at the same time, however, also allow him to offer resistance to all afflictions on earth, for the strength from God is stronger than all hostility from the world. "Ask and you will receive ...." And this applies especially to the grace that is constantly granted to you, without which you will hardly be able to master earthly life. To ask for divine grace means, as it were, to constantly seek contact with the father in heaven, and this contact alone must impart strength to you, for then you will seek the spirit from Whom you originated .... you will turn to Him in search of help, Whose creature you are .... you will recognize your origin and willingly submit to divine strength .... and thus it can also be conveyed to you, and to such an extent that earthly life will appear more bearable to you and you will be able to fulfil your earthly task without stagnation .... for those who love God and desire His strength to whom He communicates indefinitely .... And those who consciously commend themselves to God's grace may also receive the unlimited supply of love which the father in heaven intended for His earthly children in order to make the struggle on earth easier for them, for everything depends on His grace, and blessed are those .... who ask for grace, for they will be visibly protected on earth and need no other help than that which comes from above .... which is God's love and mercy ....

Amen

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Life without love .... early calling home ....

B.D. 0898 from May 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The divine mission is exceedingly gracious, and man increases his knowledge of things which otherwise remain hidden from him, and so today an explanation is intended for you which is connected with the passing away of the one who occupies your thoughts. Therefore take note: The conscious immersion in spiritual problems undoubtedly promotes the development of the soul, and therefore every spiritual seeker is at an advantage over those who pay no attention to extraterrestrial questions. But now a change takes place in the heart of the spiritual seeker .... He certainly sees himself close to knowledge and yet remains somewhat defensive, and that is because he strives more intellectually than with the heart .... i.e., love is not yet right in him, love has not yet become truly active in him, and thus a true life of love, which leads to the awakening of the spirit of God, has not yet set in, and thus the human being certainly tries to come closer to the truth with good will, he also acknowledges God as the most adorable being, he tries to come close to Him and yet he lacks the right warmth, which originates from love .... The human being is certainly ready with all his senses to receive God's grace and yet he cannot get rid of the thought in his deepest heart, that an eternal deity will never manifest Himself visibly fort he poor creature’s sake .... And this is a lack of faith which would be remedied immediately if the human being wanted to cultivate love with all devotion .... Anyone who lives in love is so close to the eternal deity that he feels its breath .... Anyone who lives in love is completely absorbed by God, because God Himself is in him in all works of love .... And anyone who lives in love must come to true knowledge, for love itself informs him of this. But too little attention was paid to love in life because too much attention was paid to one's own love. And thus the soul must now be offered a new opportunity to practice love, and this can very well be put into action over there in the beyond. For its spiritual knowledge is great and will make its task easier for it if love also comes alive in it. And thus the will will already be blessed, for this will will help him to be active and thus he will enter into a new contract with the heavenly father .... he will instruct those who are poor in spirit, he will convey to them what is his spiritual property, and he will consider all the poor for whom neither the love of earthly people nor his own good deeds will make the beyond bearable .... he will pass on what he has received in abundance and will let love become active for all these poor people, what he has missed on earth up to now and therefore still was a further step towards his own perfection, if he should go this way on earth without the right love .... He wanted to, but he did not grasp the power of love .... and was therefore called home to fulfil his task in the beyond and to contribute towards the redemption of erring souls with active love .... for the lord still needs many labourers for His vineyard and what He decrees is always wise and just ....

Amen

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Death hour ....

B.D. 0899 from May 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In view of the approaching death the human being's spirit brightens up in a flash and it suddenly becomes clear to him how far he had been of wrong faith .... for until now a force had wrestled him down which he was not willing enough to resist; But now he realizes that his will alone would have been enough to resist this force, that he was thereby able to escape the spell of the evil powers, but instead did nothing to free his soul, this realization is very depressing and turns the hour of death into an hour of struggle .... he is now struggling against them with all strength and trying to free himself from the chains and the human being does not know how beneficial such an hour can often be for the departing person .... how he sometimes succeeds in being stronger than the opposing power, and through his great desire for the divine saviour and redeemer he can already banish it and the entry into the eternal kingdom can be a peaceful and blissful one. And once the battle of life is over, an immense spiritual struggle for perfection in the beyond will certainly still begin, and the soul will still have a lot of catching up to do, yet once it has recognized on earth then the striving in the beyond is a conscious one, the soul seeks to make up for the wrongly used earthly time in extremely strenuous activity, it only ever has the desire to give, for it has completely become love and solves the task set for it. For this reason a timely demise on earth can actually only be joyfully welcomed if the soul of bright spirit has recognized the purpose of earthly life and the final liberation from matter has now become its greatest aim. For this is God's will that every spirit is active for the other, and that, if this will was not fulfilled on earth, the same struggle for the erring souls must begin in the beyond, for only then is complete redemption possible ....

Amen

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Thought activity .... Spiritual good and spiritual power ....

B.D. 0900 from May 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

So give ear to the voice that sounds within you: That which man's wisdom investigates is earthly spiritual good, i.e., a result is brought about through bodily functions, which can certainly also be attributed to a current of force, but in a purely material sense. Only the influx of power is utilized, which applies to the body, i.e. to pure matter .... the bodily activity of the organs is stimulated, so to speak. They carry out their assigned function, and since no spiritual motive is the driving force .... since it is merely a matter of research into natural processes, the result will also be of the same kind, thus a purely rationally considered and therefore provable result .... Man will be able to precisely calculate the purely natural function of the human body, he will also not need to give wrong conclusions but he will only ever solve purely human or earthly problems by virtue of his brain centre, for this ability was given to him by the divine creator .... Yet where the great question has to be solved, which is a riddle to every human being, there human intellect will be of no avail and all bodily functions will be inadequate, and human science can make the most imaginable efforts .... it has no access whatsoever to the spiritual realm .... it will have to recognize that all explanations, no matter how wise, about the nature of the human being are invalid in view of the fact that every human being should nevertheless have the same disposition, since all human beings were also created organically the same, and that the tiny differences, which the scientist would like to put forward as the cause of the different thinking and feeling life do not, after all, give any indication of the completely different abilities of the human being .... that there is obvious evidence for the latter, but that the blatant difference of human beings, physically and organically, does not exist to the same extent as the effects appear in the different people. And so it remains to be considered that scientifically all assertions can certainly be proven, but that the thought material of man has not yet found complete explanation, when it is taken into consideration that man is also able to think differently than only that which is visible in the material world, therefore also explainable .... The thought is in itself only the expressed will of man .... The will in turn is the main factor in life; when it becomes active, life first forms itself. Thought will therefore take that direction which the will prescribes for it. If now all spiritual life, thinking, could be explained simply in this way, that the bodily organs incessantly exercise their functions and that now these functions are merely a mechanical exercise of the small and smallest components necessary for the construction of the human body, which man then so wisely calls molecules .... then this in itself cannot be denied, but it is always only the second explanation, which nevertheless does not exclude the fact that thought is spiritual power which has nothing in common with the constitution of the body .... for hundreds and thousands of people can demonstrably have the same bodily constitution, yet the same brain activity can never be proven to them, which, however, should be the case according to the opinion of the wise researchers who try to deny everything spiritual. They will never succeed in forcing people to think a certain thought, and so if thinking is free it must be left to the individual human being to occupy himself spiritually at will .... which would not be the case if the human being's thinking was dependent on his physical constitution, if the human being was, so to speak, forced to think in a certain way because the body allegedly carries out its function according to a law which is based on its structure and the interconnection of the innermost and finest cells. Thought activity is certainly in itself connected with the actual life of the body, yet only insofar as the life of the body is necessary in order to also be able to express this thought activity to people, yet whether the earthly life, the life of the body, is also over .... the thinking of the being will not cease, for the functions of the body are not absolutely necessary for this .... and only then will it be understandable to the human being how far spiritual good is dependent on the body and its nature .... and the worldly researchers will recognize their error ....

Amen

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Checking this work .... receptivity for direct word ....

B.D. 0901 from May 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is of utmost importance to examine with a certain caution and not to unconditionally accept anything that is also offered to the human being .... as long as this commandment is the human being's own good, i.e. has come into being as a purely earthly work without recourse to divine help. Such a work cannot be accepted cautiously enough, since human error must always be taken into consideration and thus the truth must often be doubted. However, this precautionary measure does not apply to announcements which directly reach people from above and everything which is transmitted to people in this way by spiritual forces can undoubtedly be accepted. It is only the human being who is sometimes unable to grasp the correct meaning, be it that his train of thought digresses from the actual content or also that he has not fulfilled certain preconditions through which it is possible for him to penetrate divine wisdom. Nothing can be explained so exhaustively that it can also be understood by a person who refrains from all spiritual striving, for this is not in the spirit of the divine creator .... It will be recognized by anyone who is interested in the truth and at the same time endeavours to fulfil the demands made on him .... However, anyone who only wants to receive a purely scientific explanation has to be content with words which seem incomprehensible to him, and he first has to make an effort to find the right attitude before the meaning of the words is also comprehensible to him. Thus the lord always and at all times gave .... easily understandable words to those who desired His word out of the love of their heart, yet incomprehensible to those who only desired to know but did not adhere to the content of the gifts from above, thus did not follow the divine word either. To them they were only dead letters, without meaning and without effect .... And it went down in value, what they could not understand through their own fault lost its value. However, those who thoroughly study the word of God .... who make every effort to turn the word into action, will fully understand what is imparted to them and the slightest doubt will be removed if only they faithfully submit it to the lord. And it is enough for you to know that all strength from God is at work to help you attain profound faith and that nothing will be left undone in order to eradicate even the last doubt in you, so that the devotion to your saviour will become ever more intimate and make you receptive for the divine word in direct form .... and you thus reach the state of complete detachment of the soul from the body. Then no message will be incomprehensible to you anymore but you will receive everything at the same time with the ear, the heart and the spirit .... And this is the surest guarantee of the truthfulness of the divine words, yet your faith should already be so strong beforehand, for the saviour can approach anyone who believes firmly and unshakably and make him happy through His presence and His word ....

Amen

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Divine protection .... way of suffering .... prediction of world event ....

B.D. 0902 from May 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

This is My will that you obey the one Who gave you life .... and never rebel against what I send to you. For I truly overlook your situation, I see your spiritual hardship, I see the path of suffering your soul has to take if it does not pay attention to Me .... And I want to spare you this path of suffering I have to give you another suffering to bear which is far less than the one in the beyond, and you have to bear it in submission and be willing to comply with Me when I demand your commitment .... And you will soon realize that I only have your well-being in mind, and anyone who willingly offers his service to Me will truly be spared suffering. After all, his striving is already aimed at unification with the father .... And I will consider him with all My might and I will him protect against the hatred of enemies, and this shall be proof to you that no worldly influence can harm you. It will only result in ever more lively spiritual activity, and your faith will grow stronger, your love will become powerful, and My grace will flood you, for I take My disciples into account in abundance .... I make sure that they do not feel any suffering that comes from outside, but recognize Me and My working tangibly and seek and find unity with Me. What will shortly happen is premeditated and will also contribute to the fact that your writings will be believed, for My working there as well as here is clearly recognizable to the one who only wants to recognize it. And all the world will become perplexed and turn its gaze upwards. For it is a renewed manifestation of My will to once again send instructions to people in all love and grace, the observance of which is of utmost necessity if you don't want to become a victim of world events. You have not awakened the spirit within you .... And if you remain in spiritual darkness you will not be able to reach Me .... And again I admonish you, don’t let the time go by unused, because the suffering of the earthly time ist to be called small compared to the suffering that awaits you over there when you have to leave earthly life unprepared. And who of you knows how close the hour of death is to him? .... Who of you can judge how significant a single day in earthly life is for life in eternity ....

And how as a result of this your striving for spiritual goods is fulfilled to the best of your ability if you only really desire such things. For I have immeasurable treasures in store for you and thus for everyone who willingly entrusts himself to Me in prayer, so that he will receive what he asks for. If you recognize this correctly you will be in safe hands, for I will not abandon those who have taken the path to Me and now see their final aim in Me. And thus I urge you to use all the strength you receive, for you will need it in difficult times, you will require great strength and spiritual refreshment, yet everything shall be given to you, for My will commands and requires you, yet My love gives and My source of grace is inexhaustible .... Therefore, don't fear the coming time but appeal for strength and I will give you abundantly so that you can work with Me and in My name when the time has come ....

Amen

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Truth bearer .... prince of lies .... error ....

B.D. 0903 from May 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The most peculiar opinions will contribute towards humanity being completely misled and wrongly instructed, for everyone will want to express himself and yet will not be informed but only express his human intellectual knowledge. And thus it is to a certain extent impossible to attain truth through all these opinions unless such is sought and found by spiritual means. Certain currents can be felt, namely by those who endeavour to break the spiritual dark .... they will involuntarily abandon themselves to these currents, their will is turned towards truth, and those who are bearers of truth in the spiritual kingdom grasp it with their strength, and this communicates itself to truth-desiring people. But the counter-currents also make themselves felt, influencing people who are averse to everything spiritual and subject to the prince of lies .... And it will be a battle, and the world will want to assert itself and scientifically prove everything, announcing death to the spiritual .... But only he who is active in the spirit will live .... All earthly efforts only apply to the body and its well-being, and what lies outside of earth, what lies in the realm oft he spirit .... The world cannot explore such things, for they are not tangible or visible, yet it is well audible the spirit in man .... And therefore man has only the task of awakening his spirit in order to also be able to recognize the spiritual kingdom and his preceptions will then indisputably lead to the right result, and no differences of opinion will disturb the spiritual inquirers and those living in God .... the spirit from God protects against error if the human being completely hands himself over to Him, yet the spirit of lies takes hold of the others and many opinions will come to light, and that will be the downfall of the soul .... Incredible chaos will herald the time of which it is written ....

Amen

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Admonition to resist ....

B.D. 0904 from May 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The more willingly you comply with My instructions the more you will be blessed .... Those who seek Me I will bring together, for I choose My fighters who shall lead the way in battle for Me. And thus bear in mind that everything is subject to My guidance, that no step is taken in vain and everything has to take its course according to a wise plan in order to serve a specific purpose again. The one who ends human life well knows why he does this .... And whoever serves Me with all his heart will recognize the purpose of all events .... I only desire love and complete trust from you, and if you give this to Me you prove that you want to serve Me .... And so take note that all further ways are likewise under My protectorate that you may well refuse since your will is free, yet in your desire for love and profound faith you will always recognize My will and act accordingly. Likewise, you will receive information if you are to hold a special office, for I have an assignment ready for you which is well suited to spread My word amongst humanity. I bless those who serve Me and give them all My strength, I guide you and smooth your paths so that you will not waver and never tire of proclaiming My work to the world .... I approach you so extraordinarily, and always and constantly seek Me in spirit, then I will be close to you and provide you with My grace .... The more willingly you surrender to Me the more noticeable My nearness will be to you, and I will keep all suffering away from you if you desire Me and My word and pass it on to those who hunger and thirst for divine refreshment. Peace shall enter your heart, you who receive My word within you, and it shall remain with you, just as I remain with you in the word for all eternity ....

Amen

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Task that requires the free will of the human being ....

B.D. 0905 from May 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You shall hear what shall give you comfort: Only a few are granted the living connection to the father of the universe, and these few are chosen by Me to fulfil a great mission. Very often people have the need to enter into direct contact with Me, and I always consider them according to their worthiness .... and this in turn depends on the degree of love longing for Me .... and thus I forcefully seize those who can sacrifice worldly desire for My sake, for they are closest to the state of liberation from all matter. Now it goes against My will if everyone feels called to hear the divine voice who is still very far away from Me in his heart .... but on the other hand it is completely wrong to reject all announcements of this kind, because those who believe they know Me and My work so well that no intervention on My part seems possible to them are incredibly self-conceited. So many weak beings certainly have to fear the danger of being influenced by God-removed spiritual beings, yet then a certain earthly interest will always be the root evil .... who, however, renounces everything earthly in the will to serve Me, will also never ever need to fear establishing a wrong connection, for I protect such earthly children from error and evil influence. And I want you to consider how extensively divine love has revealed itself to you. Behold, worlds can pass over it before such a task can be solved, which requires the human being's free will and at the same time requires him to withstand all external resistance .... Time and again people themselves will want to destroy what My love wants to build up for them .... And I cannot force people through extraordinary evidence which would put their will into a state of compulsion. A completely free will has to complete this work .... he must, as it were, conquer the world by being stronger than all the temptations of this world. Again and again people waver in their faith and yet only a strong rock can let the living water flow out .... And the rock must be exposed to such notable onslaughts and must offer them resistance, only then can this rock open and the source of truth spring from it. Many are certainly called to do so, and every earthly child is right by Me who submits to My will, yet none of them will withstand when the temptations approach from outside, and thus their faith is weak, they want to put Me to the test and thereby confess their lack of faith, and if I don't provide people with extraordinary grace they will become discouraged and leave Me, and the hardship on earth will constantly increase and become more threatening. And those awakened by Me are weak and timid .... and they think to serve Me by trying to turn My labourers away from Me .... And I especially remember them now and want to let them participate in the working of My love .... and thus they reward Me for My love ....My children can no longer recognize My love, they are looking for Me in the distance, where I am very close to them, and they attach such infinite importance to grasping My word with visible gestures, and yet they are bearers of this word and shall proclaim My profound love for humanity .... And I consider them with great strength, because they are active according to My will and bring large numbers of sheep to Me, yet they do not yet grasp the depth of My love. They erect a barrier between themselves and the world, they don't allow the few who are of the same mind to cross this barrier either, instead they deny them access. And My love has to watch and cannot intervene to help, for the human being's will is free and may not be touched by Me. The hardship of souls is unspeakable and therefore I give My word anew, and this to those who were unconscionably abandoned to the arbitrariness of those who withheld the book of the fathers from people. Thus I constantly consider My own, i.e. those who love Me and in this love desire Me. And I pay no attention to the laws which people make for themselves and from which they now do not want to deviate one iota. General knowledge will indeed want to reject that knowledge which surpasses the wisdom of the fathers, but I set no limits and give as people's spiritual state of maturity requires. All knowledge about things I have explained to you was far away from you, My dear child, and this alone should suffice to recognize divine activity, for what otherwise takes the human being a long time has shortly been conveyed to you in the noblest form. And in this certainty you will also let your faith become as strong as it needs to be in order to continue your task as an industrious servant of God ....

Amen

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Forgiveness of sins ....

B.D. 0906 from May 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Those who see their father in Me are free from all guilt, for if they devotedly take refuge in the father they will also realize that He is the kindest and best being and that they can expect forgiveness of all guilt from Him. And thus it is indisputably far better if My children recognize their relationship with Me and childlike ask and humbly desire My grace, for this is an admission of their weakness and unworthiness and is more useful than a public confession of their sins before people .... Who carry My word within them can be certain at any time that I will absolve them of their guilt of sin if they are serious about not grieving Me and only fall prey to their weakness. In humble prayer for strength to remain in My will also lies the silent assurance to serve Me alone, and if the father sees the child's good will His love is also constantly willing to forgive if it has been lacking. Yet you humans on earth only rarely desire the forgiveness of your sins from the bottom of your heart, for at the same time as this request the resolution must mature in you to never fall back into the old error, and you often fail to do so. And thus a special act of forgiveness of sins will not be necessary if you truly entrust your heart to Me so that I will bless it and grant it with My love .... You will recognize from the start by the inner peace of your heart that your guilt of sin has been taken away from you, for I only want you to acknowledge Me as savior and redeemer .... that you are willing to partake of the graces of the work of redemption .... I want to be able to say of you that I died for you .... I only want your assurance that you are willing to acknowledge this act of salvation, and then I will remove all guilt from you and redeem you from the power of evil .... I want to draw My children to My heart with heartfelt fatherly love, and if you also only have the desire to be united with Me you will detest sin, and the slightest relapse will be enough to recognize the wrong and sincerely ask for forgiveness. I will give you everything you ask for, for My fatherly love is constantly willing to give to the one who is worthy of receiving .... And thus every sinner will also be considered, he will receive forgiveness of sin if he turns to Me, his father in his heart trouble .... to his savior and redeemer. I really don’t want to leave him unrefreshed and unconsoled and will not condemn him for his sin, for the father in heaven is infinitely loving, wise and just ....

Amen

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Gagged will .... freedom of will ....

B.D. 0907 from May 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The entire universe has to obey My will, and thus I direct every star and every grain of sand according to the law which has existed from eternity and emerged from My will and became a reality through My omnipotence and wisdom .... This is an incontrovertible fact which no other being can shake, for every being is also subject to this law, because it is likewise something created by Me, always and constantly controlled, which emerged from My will of love and thus is enlivened by Me and My strength .... And thus there is no being and nothing in the universe which does not carry My will within itself and thus has to comply with it. Only in a certain state of maturity do I withdraw My will from the being to the extent that I leave free will in its actions and thoughts .... that I certainly determine its path of life and shape and shape all life and experience around it such that it is conducive to its higher development, but that I give it complete freedom to shape its inner life and thus in no way have a determining effect on the being .... And this is of utmost necessity, but it must also explain to you why the overwhelming spiritual adversity could occur on earth and how I cannot compulsorily influence the human being's will if the law of eternity is not to be overturned. Only free will can bring about the final redemption of the being, otherwise the spirit out of God would be gagged in Itself and thus rage against Itself. In order to grasp this you must be in the state of light, for it is so overwhelming and cannot be made fully comprehensible to you humans on earth. Only one thing should become clear to you, that the human being's struggle on earth is such a difficult and significant one precisely because I have to respect the freedom of will and thus can only intervene in all other events in order to make this will of yours so submissive, that it enters My will of its own accord .... Yet then the earthly path will also be a blessing .... But humanity recognizes My will less and less and therefore cannot be left without help either, and if I send them help from above they reject it and let their will rule again without submitting it to Mine. And the struggle for My children will become increasingly more difficult because they lack love .... For where love is there will also be recognition, for there I can work directly .... whose will is docile and entirely subordinate to Me and therefore no obstacle will be placed in the way of My working from above there, for anyone who seeks Me will find Me, and anyone who is active in love will also grasp My love and mercy .... The human being feels infinitely small compared to My omnipotence, he humbly and pleadingly takes the right path which leads to the father of all, and his own will has brought him salvation through love ....

Amen

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Times of spiritual need .... help from above ....

B.D. 0908 from May 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In times of spiritual hardship, the care of the father in heaven has always been directed towards the children of the earth, and thus the human race has been protected from complete decline the generations anew .... The greater the need, the more visibly the love and mercy of god intervened, but the world corrupted the generations again and again and the battle with darkness was a constant one, for the lure of the world was immense, but humanity was weak and without faith in eternal glory. And so more homage was paid to the world and its illusory goods, but little thought was given to the eternal divinity and life after death. The time of suffering on earth could therefore never be ended, but hardship and sorrow had to become ever more tangible, for there was no other way to convert such an unbelieving human race which only sought the joy of the world, it had to find its way back to the eternal creator in tribulations and oppressions of all kinds, it had to learn to recognize the transience of earthly things and had to take upon itself burdens, toil and suffering, for only through such was a return to the father possible. But now faithlessness has taken on such proportions that people no longer think of the lord even in the greatest suffering .... They certainly try to master their resistance, worries and misery with all conceivable means, and often in vain, but they cannot find the path to the heavenly creator because in their faithlessness they do not even remotely want to acknowledge such a creator. And thus they don't pay attention to the spiritual gifts from above either and are therefore completely defenceless in the face of the great misery which is still destined for earth. And in this adversity the lord now remembers of the oppressed humanity .... He seeks to give it knowledge of spiritual life in direct contact, He seeks to awaken the sense for pure spiritual exchange, and people would only have to cultivate such contact for their part or make use of the results, yet such success does not increase earthly goods and is therefore not desirable either, and this now prompts the eternal deity to intervene sharply again, which will visibly appear to the whole world. And inevitably only His own will be spared the effects of divine omnipotence and justice .... And this hour is no longer far away when humanity will be shaken up and find itself in greatest turmoil, and this time will have such a dreadful effect that all strength and all assistance will have to be requested from God if people are not to end their earthly life in despair and be abandoned to complete ruin. For the end of the world does not mean the coming judgment, however, for the individual who does not want to recognize the temporal end will have come and both the believers and the unbelievers will be taken away from earth .... the former will be guided upwards, but the latter will have to immediately exchange the earthly kingdom fort he kingdom of darkness .... many miracles will happen first, but people do not pay attention to it .... And there will be great trouble among mankind, for the voice of God will not be heard and the call from above will not penetrade the hearts of the faithless, but will reverberate unheard. And this is decided in a short time, and all who want to escape unspeakable misery may heed these words, for the lord still remembers them in the last hour ....

Amen

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Flats in the father’s house .... state of happiness .... restlessness ....

B.D. 0909 from May 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

„And there are many apartments prepared in My father’s house ....“ In every human heart lies the desire for happiness and peace and it is this that gives him the urge to strive for everything that puts him in a state of happiness. And thus the explanation can already be found in this, why man must be constantly active, for he is driven precisely by the longing for something beautiful, something that is beneficial to his senses. It is not always the same what the human being strives .... Everyone sees their heart’s fulfillment in a different way .... And thus the question arises again here as to how eternal bliss has to be in order to make all hearts happy, in order to satisfy everyone's longing and to be fulfilment for him .... You humans on earth are not yet able to grasp this today, for it is descriptions far beyond your comprehension which would have to be given to you in order to fully understand what awaits you in the beyond. And again, it is every person's own business which state he creates for himself, both in which way as well as to what degree he becomes aware of well-being, for there are innumerable possibilities which can give him pleasure but which, conversely, can also make him aware of his soul's emptiness, and therefore it is so immensely important already on earth to put oneself into the state of maturity, that the soul does not have to endure the agonizing state of recognizing its shortcomings in the beyond, for this is like a homeless wandering ....

There is no resting point given to the soul where it can lead a tranquil existence, instead, it recognizes with profound remorse that it has neglected to create an acceptable abode for itself in the beyond, and it is now dependent on the love of other souls, whether they want to grant it a stay or not. Such a state of homelessness lasts until the soul has become active itself and has recognized that it still has the opportunity to improve its situation, and then an extremely diligent striving begins, for the desire for happiness and peace is still present and will increase to the same extent as it is fulfilled. For in the state of light the most magnificent images .... indescribable charm and unspeakably beautiful valleys and heights present themselves to the spiritual eye, and the soul would like to take abode in the midst of this glory, and it only requires its will that its desire is satisfied and it finds a home which offers it all happiness and bliss. For the term 'love and omnipotence' is not fully comprehensible to you .... You don't know what God's infinite love has prepared for people who love Him with all their heart and keep His commandments .... Only when you enter eternity will you be able to assess this, and blessed will be he who has already gathered the building blocks on earth and finds in the eternal home what is the fulfilment of his deepest longing ....

Amen

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Spiritual seeing ....

B.D. 0910 from May 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Those who indulge in the world cannot grasp spiritual wealth, but those who live in God are given in abundance .... And so it is very easy to recognize who is in the truth and who is subject to error and a blind man in spirit will never be allowed to presume to pass judgement, for he sees with the eyes of the world and these do not penetrate spiritual territory. Conversely, however, a spiritually active person will be allowed to gain insight and all obstacles will disappear from his spiritual eye and what he sees will not be visible to the naked eye and yet clearly and distinctly perceptible to the eye of the spirit. To reach this state is extraordinarily happy for the earthly human being and will also not be denied to him, only it requires the human being's strongest will to make the gift of spiritual vision his own. Spiritual matter is hidden in all matter and therefore this spiritual matter must inevitably start to function .... and it is this activity which visibly appears to the spiritually seeing person. It is like a constant use of spiritual strength, it is a regular exchange of inflowing and outgoing strength and thus a constant pulsation of the elemental strength guided by God through all works of creation, to which every being as well as every work of creation contributes through itself. What the human being is able to see spiritually has no connection whatsoever with earthly abilities of such beings but is a completely isolated activity, and only the truly spiritually advanced human being can arbitrarily and at any time put himself into the state where spiritual seeing is possible for him, and this always also presupposes the will to derive some benefit from such grace, and therefore the divine creator only allows such when there is no longer any danger of compulsive faith, when therefore whatever the earthly child gets to see does not exert a damaging influence on the person's soul. And therefore only those earth children are admitted who already show a certain spiritual maturity .... that is, the viewer must be able to reproduce what he sees with an alert mind and also be able to fully grasp for himself what purpose all activity is based on, so that he, purely earthly seen, will himself be spurred on to the utmost by this everlasting activity in order to in turn give the spiritual in himself every opportunity to develop .... Whoever is able to see spiritually will also soon have overcome matter and only remain on earth for the sake of his fellow human beings, for this state will already be a sojourn in higher spheres for him, and matter will be left behind, as it were, for it does not belong in that world .... Nevertheless, a conscious vision into the spiritual kingdom brings unspeakable benefit to the earthly human being and should therefore be striven for with full will, since it is, after all, a matter of increasing spiritual wealth and collecting imperishable treasures for eternity.

Amen

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"My kingdom has come from above ...."

B.D. 0911 from May 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

And My kingdom has come from above .... and humanity does not believe it. It imagines itself to be knowledgeable and yet remains in deepest spiritual darkness, and every attempt to rouse it from sleep fails, for the night of death holds the soul in its grip and the day with its light is not desired .... And everything points to the time that I mentioned on earth. And so listen then: All of you who believe to walk in the spirit of the lord, pay attention to the events of the world .... do not worry about your temporal well-being either, but think of the endlessly long time in eternity, which brings bitter suffering to those who did not find Me on earth. Therefore, take upon yourselves everything the world wants to do to you, if only through this you can help the many erring ones. Don't leave the erring to their fate but try to bring them help, for if you live in love for Me these trials will be blessed, yet you must willingly take upon yourselves the suffering of the earth and bear it for Me, your saviour and redeemer. For the earth will be a single source of fire, for people everywhere seek to detach themselves from Me and to fully compensate Me in earthly possessions for what they give away. The precious time on earth will pass people by unused and will only result in complete apostasy from God, to Whom they should strive .... The sun with its rays cannot break through the coldness of the heart, and one day the state without the warming rays of the sun will be agonizing, for anyone who remains in the night withdraws from the beneficial effect of the divine sun of grace; the suffering of the earth shall be a warning to you, it shall announce to you that you still walk in darkness; it shall be My loving warning for you to still turn back on earth from the previous way of life and to still desire the light. And in all world events recognize the working of the deity Which wants to draw your attention to the approaching end of this time, to the imminent purification of all spiritual substances, and thus consciously ask God, your creator and redeemer, so that you will not fall prey to eternal darkness .... Because the suffering on earth is only short-lived but the torment in the beyond is endless .... The kingdom of God has come down, and it is not of this world. It does not apply to your body, but only your soul, and so you must also grasp it with your soul and not ask to what extent it is beneficial for your earthly body. Nothing will remain which at present gives you pleasure in earthly goods, but the kingdom of God will be everlasting and good for him who receives it when it comes to him. My kingdom is not of this world and therefore cannot be perceived with physical eyes, yet it is possible for you to grasp it with your spirit, and spiritually you will also perceive the beatitudes and recognize the truth of everything I announced to you at the time of My life .... The tremendous misery on earth has moved Me to take care oft he human children again with all love and mercy and to bring My kingdom closer them again, but the adversary's power has fanned the will of rejection so strongly, and the human being's will offers him no resistance and yet is in greatest danger .... And those who recognize this shall be active for Me and constantly seek to bring light to those who still walk in deepest night. They will do nothing without My support. This assurance of Mine shall be a comfort to them and at the same time an incentive for ever more active work for Me, for they are My children for whom I fear and long for with all My love ....

Amen

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Control of the creature .... strong will ....

B.D. 0912 from May 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

By virtue of the immense willpower which a spiritually striving human being can acquire on earth it is possible for him to subjugate all creatures, and this process is solely based on an extraordinary use of divine strength .... It is not the human being as such who causes the subjugation but the human being's will, which is subordinated to divine will, requests extraordinary strength from God and is now able to influence all creatures such that they have to obey his will. And it will willingly submit, for it has no will of its own but is constantly in God's will, so that therefore nothing else is demanded of the respective being than what is intended for it by the eternal deity .... To make God's will one's own is truly the key to all wisdom and spiritual success .... fear the slightest resistance from any entity as soon as he gives up his will, i.e. for now the human being no longer directs his will himself, but divine care has, so to speak, taken all thought and action into its hands and the human being now lives, as it were, in accordance with his destiny from eternity .... And man was appointed by God as ruler over all creatures .... and he allowed this rank to be contested by him who caused man’s apostasy from God .... The will became weak, yet it rebelled against the divine will and thereby also succumbed in many respects to the creature, which, as the bearer of the divine will, for its part dominates man and so he is often dependent on the activity assigned to the creature .... i.e. it sometimes has a hostile effect on the human being as long as he has not reached spiritual maturity and thus does not possess the will in the strength possible for him .... Consequently, the human being still has to make great use of his life on earth if he considers that it is his right to shape his will such that complete control of the creature is possible for him. And if he achieves this strength of will his path on earth will also be much easier, for then everything will be subject to him, and his spiritual influence on the beings subordinate to him will also be extremely beneficial and likewise make the beings' path on earth easier, since only one will controls everything and no different currents will influence these beings unfavourably. And thus, once again, the human being's every endeavour will only have to be directed towards the one aim of recognizing the will of the eternal deity and fully subordinating himself to Him, and all struggles on earth will be easy but successful ....

Amen

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Examining the revelations .... most faithful devotion .... truth ....

B.D. 0913 from May 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Pay attention to the words that come to you today: It is indescribably difficult for the recipient of God’s word to remain in the same confidence, and it requires the strongest faith in order to accept every word as divine revelation without doubt. But in the realization that every gift from above is subject to divine protection, it is of utmost importance that the receiver surrenders himself to the divine guidance in complete confidence .... that he only ever accepts and is the doer of the office to receive and to impart. Any assessment of the gift is not his task, for the lord, in his turn, considers in all wisdom whom He has called to do this, and on the other hand, the earthly child never has the ability to examine a divine gift as to its truthfulness. The right path to heaven's door can only be taken in the most faithful devotion .... Divine strength and divine will rule over all power of darkness, thus it is never to be feared that a child longing for God can itself in the snares

of evil .... for this is His strength, His protection and His security, that it strives towards the eternal deity, its creator and father. In such desire the opposing power cannot approach the human being and thus cannot exert any influence by expressing itself in the same way and using the human being's will for its own lowly purposes. You humans on earth are in a certain state of compulsion, you pay too much attention to earthly appearances, you do not recognize the origin and the fundamental evil of wrong thinking. A person seeking divinity endeavours to escape from the adversary, and whatever the person consciously takes a stance on also passes into him, and the adversary has to watch his endeavour powerlessly and has no influence unless the person falls back into his weaknesses and thus hands himself over to the adversary again. But the will, which is meant for the deity and only ever strives for unification with Him, cannot be touched from another side, and therefore the human being need never fear that the spirit of untruth could express itself in such proclamations from above, and therefore all misgivings which could worry a truth-loving soul are invalid. The father in heaven already chooses the right fighters for His name, and He will know how to dispel any misgivings, for the spirit from God is exceedingly wise, loving and just ....

Amen

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Shackles of the soul .... state of suffering .... Saulus - Paulus ....

B.D. 0914 from May 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The soul's desire is to be released from all suffering, for it is in a fettered state as long as it is still attached to earthly goods. Thus, on the one hand it desires the latter and thus creates the oppressive state for itself, but on the other hand it longs for final liberation and is grateful for every help which applies to the loosening of its fetters. And thus it is always its own will whether it gives in to the desire for earthly good or renounces this .... and accordingly its state will also be more or less free. But once it has perceived how much lighter and freer it feels when it has tamed its desire and voluntarily renounced it, its will is also stronger and it now consciously strives for this freer state, for a visible change is now taking place and the good spiritual forces are now also at its disposal. These seek to increase the soul's striving by presenting all spiritual advantages to the soul and are only ever concerned to weaken the desire for earthly good, for matter, and to keep the sense for spiritual truths awake, and thus a total change can become noticeable, a Saul can become a Paul, and a soul which hitherto indulged in earthly pleasures can renounce all these and now only strive to do justice to the spiritual task. Such a transformation is always the result of a previous spiritual upheaval .... It can be preceded by earthly suffering, but it can also be the sudden realization as a result of a heartfelt prayer which was sent up to the father of the universe by a fellow human being in love for this soul in order to support the soul in the earthly fight .... in fight for life in eternity, for such a prayer was sent up to the heavenly father entirely unselfishly and therefore already has the strength within itself, since love was the motive .... Love must now have a redeeming effect on the earthly child, and the soul feels this very well .... it feels the relief, and now it becomes easier for it to continue on the path it has taken, because it recognizes the benefit and now also becomes active of ist own accord. The soul’s striving will only apply to spiritual life and it will henceforth declare war on all matter, and although it still comes into contact with it far too often as a human being it will now be able to renounce it with a light heart and only live for liberation from its shackles, in the knowledge that this is the greatest necessity and that its life on earth should only apply to this striving ....

Amen

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Faithlessness .... chaos .... distress of the earth .... helmsman ....

B.D. 0915 from May 15th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The time has come when everything rebels against God, there is spiritual chaos which eclipses all previous lack of faith; and it has come to the point that even those people who still acknowledged their creator deny their faith but in wrong consideration now submit to worldly laws because earthly advantage seems to accrue to them as a result. It is still left to the human being's free will to decide, and therefore those people cannot answer for their actions to the creator, yet it will also come to the point that anyone who serves the world will be forced to deny his faith, for otherwise he will have no opportunity to meet earthly demands. And thus I warn you once again not to give Me away for the sake of earthly advantage, for who will guarantee you that you can enjoy earthly goods? .... And who has the entire fate of humanity in his hand, and who can also guide you out of earthly adversity? .... Only your lack of faith can cause you to fall away from Me, for you no longer recognize Me, you completely exclude Me and carve out your own earthly life. And yet you will have to experience that the creator of heaven and earth does not allow Himself to be denied, you will feel His hand, and that in a less than pleasing way, so that you do not forget Him but awaken from spiritual sleep. The world wants to raise servants of mammon, it is only ever intent on killing everything spiritual in the human being, and this will have such a dreadful effect when the great adversity sets in, for then the human being will be completely helpless and abandoned if he does not know one to Whom he can turn in search of help. And everything will collapse beneath him and around him which has been his support up to now .... The earthly world will become shaky and offer no security for the individual's life, and only he will be strong and not helpless who truly looks up to the father of the universe with faith and entrusts his fate to Him .... I know My children and protect them, and I will also remember the weak who do not yet completely make their will serviceable to the earthly commandments .... I want to strengthen their will so that they will still recognize their true father in the last hour and give Him the honour. A time of grace is still granted, and the adversity on earth will announce it to you .... Make use of it and seek refuge in the heavenly father, for He alone can bring you help in every adversity; but don't carelessly ignore it if extraordinary phenomena give you cause for concern .... Put everything into context with the adversity of the time, which you humans alone have conjured up for yourselves through your lack of faith .... Do not presume to create your own direction of faith .... You only bring yourselves to ruin and will feel the power of Him Who is above you. And that is why you recognize where you are heading and still try to steer your little ship of life into the right course .... let Me be your helmsman and cast out the anchor of faith .... let yourselves be driven by love and put all your hands on yourselves so that you will safely reach your aim, the eternal home, and feel safe in the harbour of divine love ....

Amen

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Communication from a being from the beyond ....

B.D. 0916 from May 15th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Those who long for Me with a loving heart shall find fulfilment of their longing and be extremely happy .... The world cannot offer them such happiness but the eternal spirit of love, from Whom everything that exists originated, can. And if this finds its way back to the father again, the reunion will mean a state of bliss which you will never grasp on earth. And this certainty should be an incentive for you to strive for My love and unification with Me with all your senses, and this will bring you spiritual advantage and be beneficial for your spiritual work ....

Now let your spirit wander into unknown territory. An extremely active spiritual exchange has been initiated from the beyond to earth and those who cultivate it are all intimately connected with Me. They desire spiritual nourishment and are constantly in contact with the teachers of the beyond in order to be instructed in love and wisdom. And the ignorant beings in the beyond are likewise involved in this, as far as their own will impels them to take notice of what is offered to you. Many a soul's path of suffering in the beyond can be considerably shortened by this if it correctly utilizes everything it has received. And therefore it is also explainable that you are surrounded by countless beings who have received inconceivable blessings from your work due to the everlasting instructions which also benefit them. Now a being demands to communicate with you which is in direct contact with you and follows your spiritual work with utmost attention. And this is My permission that he who is devoted to you in love makes himself known, and therefore give yourself to his words without doubt: The evening was a blessing for Me, which let Me take part in your work. I have no one on earth who is as close to Me as you are, for I left the earth alone and left no one behind who remembers Me in love. And in the distress of My soul help has come to me, for I felt the power of your prayer and was, as it were, strengthened by it. I have hurried through space in order to be close to you and find so much unspeakable help and strength in every connection which your will establishes with the spiritual world that I thank the heavenly father with all My heart for the grace He bestowed upon Me through you. Depending on their worthiness, He considers earthly people and also us, but your prayer is a visible strengthening for us, and My suffering is weakened the more I am allowed to enrich My knowledge with the divine teaching offered to you. And now I want to make use of what I have received through you with all diligence, and I want to point out and lead ever new souls to you and preach the gospel to them according to God's will. I only live for this spiritual task and see in every manifestation that comes to you such an infinite gift of grace from the lord and saviour that I only now grasp the full significance of the extraordinary nature of this proof of divine fatherly love. I would like to assist you in the most imaginable way, but My strength is not yet sufficient, and so it is only a special act of grace today that I may make Myself known to you and offer you My thanks for your loving remembrance and request for My soul's salvation. And now a few more words shall enlighten you: The human being who misses his purpose on earth is regrettable if he arrives empty and bare in the beyond, but as long as God's grace is so graciously offered to him, salvation can be brought to his soul, and therefore I let no opportunity go by unused and remain close to you, asking you to continue to remember Me in prayer and to give Me the love which you gave Me on earth and which I had little regard for; during life I did not find the right connection with you, but now I look for every opportunity where I can attend the spiritual exchange to earth, thanking the eternal deity Who lovingly grants Me this grace .... Who offers himself to the lord for service can truly work beneficially on earth as well as in the beyond ....

Amen

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Spiritual exchange .... explanation of the otherworldly friends ....

B.D. 0917 from May 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The host of beings in the beyond calls upon you to enter into an intimate relationship with it and not to be disturbed by any announcements, for you will be protected from all error as long as you desire the truth.

Behold, in the circle of friends surrounding you there is a diligent endeavour to assist you, and every manifestation goes, as it were, through the control of your guide and protector. Therefore you need not fear that someone can express himself arbitrarily, and neither can other spiritual forces determine you to write something down which is not in the lord's will, for these are blessed hours which you devote to spiritual work, and during this time the spiritual friends protect you from everything detrimental to this work. Personal contact with the spirit world for the purpose of an earthly exchange of thoughts is only permitted if it is intended to give the earthly child an account of the spiritual activity of the beings in the beyond, and therefore those beings are allowed to express themselves in order to stimulate the earthly child into diligent spiritual activity. Thus that being which made itself known to you yesterday was in contact with you on earth and was not well-disposed towards you, but now it has recognized the strength and grace of prayer and therefore constantly seeks your proximity, follows your work and draws strength from it unceasingly. Until this time his train of thought had moved in a completely opposite direction, and thus he in particular needed obvious proof of spiritual activity, but now his striving is an eager one to tie up the spiritual threads in order to progress in knowledge and at the same time to impart this knowledge to the ignorant and erring spiritual beings in the beyond. And therefore it is understandable how much he would like to make himself known to you, for his striving is serious and only applies to the pure truth. And thus always trust the guidance of your spiritual friends and don't let yourself be distracted by words which don't immediately seem comprehensible to you .... Everything has been well examined and given to you with wise intentions .... to stimulate your thinking, to test your faith and to deepen your union with the father again and again. So hear a message of love from us today: He who gave you life guides your steps and cares for you so that you do not go astray, and you can entrust yourself to His guidance with complete faith. You will only find the right trust in Him when you have recognized Him as the God of love, and when the word from above reaches you, you can feel secure in His love and fully entrust your life to the divine lord and saviour, for He blesses those whom He has embraced with His love and is their constant protection and shield. Christ's suffering on the cross was the testimony of His great love, and He also now takes it upon Himself again to save them from greatest adversity, and everything out of love for His children, and to protect them from unspeakable misery in eternity. The might of the most High is great, but greater still is love, and its omnipotence will prevail and redeem humanity from all sin ....

Amen

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Knowledge alone not enough .... fulfilment of the commandments necessary ....

B.D. 0918 from May 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Without his help the human being cannot fulfil his task on earth. Knowledge alone is not enough, it is only of value if all willpower is also used at the same time to make use of his life on earth in accordance with the knowledge. Life must be in harmony with what divine wisdom gave people to know in the form of commandments, and thus these commandments must be completely complied with, i.e. divine will must be respected and can never be eliminated. Now the human being uses all the strength he is entitled to for the solution of the earthly task for other purposes and thinks too little of the actual purpose, and he now exposes himself to the danger of walking through earthly life completely inactive, for he resists the right realization and lives in direct material experience .... he only knows the world, desires it and is the representative of the most blatant error as soon as any spiritual questions are judged. For this is not possible otherwise, since he himself makes all arrangements to look at the world from the standpoint of the enjoyer. And this should be a warning to you, for you will lose yourselves if a loving being does not show you the right path .... for the human being must be constantly active and only ever think of his soul ....

Amen

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Reminder to proclaim God’s word everywhere .... good shepherd ....

B.D. 0919 from May 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

To be allowed to gain insight into the kingdom of eternity is an incomparable grace and will only be granted to those who have seriously set themselves the aim of unification with God. For this reason, however, a special task is also given to those people, and it is their mission to deepen or change .... Precisely the person, who thinks he knows, often has the least knowledge of things that lie in spiritual regions, and teaching those people is without a doubt particularly necessary, for the spiritual night still encloses those who believe themselves to be in knowledge. Sometimes there is no lack of will, for the earthly struggle is a good teacher for them at the same time, and thoughtfully they observe the events of the time near and far .... But in the hustle and bustle of the world they look for their explanation and are very poorly and rarely connected with God, without rejecting Him. And this is a grateful field of work for the chosen servants of God. What obviously comes to light must give rise to serious reflection, and a field of activity offers itself to the representative of divine teaching who is willing to work. However, people seldom recognize a supersensible power, and therefore many different suppositions are open to debate. But not one can give sufficient explanation, and in the end the working of the eternal deity will be apparent to them, and all doubt will fall where light is seriously desired. Thus the state of the soul is extreme distress and it is therefore grateful for every help. Innumerable possibilities remain unused and could still lead to success, however the human being should be constantly active, who has the task to impart what he receives himself. There are still enough opportunities to inform people of their actual task, yet the time can also come when everyone will have to rely on himself and it will be difficult to help the individual on the part of human .... You should enter every open door and proclaim the word of God, because it is urgently necessary. Likewise you should mention the coming time which will have a frightening effect on everyone who does not stand firm in faith. And so hear the voice of the lord:

Many of My sheep still wander and do not find their shepherd .... they all go astray and get lost in the undergrowth and are in danger of falling off the cliffs they climb in their inexperience and recklessness. And the distress of all the sheep goes to My heart. I call, but they do not hear My voice, and I fear for every single life, lest they lose it forever. Sin has entered the world and is the death of every man .... And if I promise life to all those who follow Me, then I will take sin upon Myself and save them from eternal death, yet My sheep must follow Me and recognize their shepherd in Me. And I will faithfully guide them over all bumps in the road, I will prevent one of My sheep from getting lost, for I know them all and am concerned about every single life. And if they recognize their good shepherd in Me they will follow Me and willingly let themselves be guided by Me ....

Amen

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Teaching activity in the beyond .... eagerness of imperfect beings to learn ....

B.D. 0920 from May 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The eagerness to learn of the still imperfect beings in the beyond, once they have recognized it, is tireless. They seek to acquire spiritual treasures everywhere and accept everything offered to them with diligence and gratitude, and thus teaching in the beyond is also an office which is carried out with all diligence and devotion, for the benefit of the recipients depends on the one who teaches. Earthly people only accept what is offered to them after a long period of hesitation, whereas in the beyond the beings initially observe and examine everything quietly but very soon come to realization, then they eagerly acquire the spiritual knowledge in order to be able to use it again. For since they have experienced their own hardship, which was caused by the lack of spiritual knowledge, they now endeavour to protect the other spiritual beings from the same fate and give them everything which could reduce and shorten their torment. And every gift is gratefully received, for at the same time strength is given to the beings, and therefore every being strives upwards if it was only once given spiritual nourishment to taste and now only desires divine nourishment. It is also immensely pleasing for the teacher to preach the gospel to the poor in spirit, because love drives him to it .... Because in ordert o be able to teach, he must stand in love and in the light, i.e., he must have reached a certain state of maturity or perfection which also requires love to a great extent. All teachers are therefore driven by the love dwelling in them to divest themselves, i.e., to give away their knowledge to everyone who likewise desires divine wisdom. And thus every being in the beyond can continue to draw from the source of grace of divine love, and to a greater extent if it also participates in the connections between the beyond and earth. The initiated communications also allow the being in the beyond to gain precise insight, and unlimited knowledge is offered to the earthly children and can also be received in the beyond. The desire of these beings is indescribable and God's love infinite, and thus He continually gives His grace to the beings which desire the truth ....

Amen

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Reproduction of prophetic words .... task .... sounding voice ....

B.D. 0921 from May 18th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Let your hearts speak and you will hear the voice of God within you and all doubt will be removed. But you still have a task ahead of you which should be your constant striving to solve. It concerns the last transmissions or rendering of the prophetic words which the lord gave to His own on earth, and this requires utmost devotion to the divine saviour, for this is a task which you can only completely solve if you are endowed with the gift to audibly hear the voice of the lord and at the same time can gain insight into the spiritual kingdom by means of spiritual vision. And so today we convey to you a proclamation which is well suited to serve you as an explanation of how you can succeed in attaining that state. The epitome of the divine commandments is to practice love, and this is to be striven for with all one's strength. So many opportunities are offered to you, and you can constantly give love, for your spiritual state precisely demands active activity as long as you are still on earth .... But you must also make an effort to absorb the divine word, which imparts all strength to you. The word was God's expressed will from the very beginning. Receiving it means the direct granting of all grace and divine strength, for the lord has invested His word with it and thus given the earthly child the ladder to heaven which guarantees an effortless ascent. If you now carry the word of God within you, you will be active in love, practice humility and gentleness, childlike in supplication present your request to the father in heaven, be peace-loving and merciful and do everything God announces .... The path to home may be easy and effortless to climb if you live up to God’s requirements, but it can also be unspeakably difficult and thorny if you don’t believe you need the strengthening of His word. Then you will have to go through suffering and worry so that you will become small and then nevertheless take refuge in all adversity to the father in heaven .... And your whole way of life should only be serving .... The father of all creation means fully submitting to His will, rejecting everything of yours which is not in harmony with His commandments, i.e. that is, always only do what the father demands .... and so you will also serve your neighbor and have to show him all love if you truly want to become one with the eternal deity, for only in the deepest humiliation lies exaltation .... only he who serves will one day be able to rule, and all arrogance has to be put to an end and God's grace implored in utmost humility. The voice of the heart sounds tenderly and quietly in you, yet you will not hear it until you have removed all impurity from yourselves .... Where the lord wants to dwell and make Himself audibly known, there must be light and brightest clarity, there must be no resistance to the sounding divine voice and it will sound audibly in the hearts of those who surrender to this voice .... it will ring like a fine little bell and will be proof of the heartfelt fatherly love for the child on earth .... The more eagerly you endeavour to attain maturity of your soul the sooner you will be able to fulfil the task given to you, and thus the admonition is given to you in all love to devote yourself to the most eager striving so that you will fully fulfil your destiny on earth and serve the lord of heaven and earth in time and eternity ....

Amen

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Fulfilment of the commandments in the compulsory state ....

B.D. 0922 from May 19th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The divine commandments are so clear to you .... No further explanation is needed than that My will is made known to you wherever you desire to hear it. No being has the power to stop the voice within you, it will make itself heard again and again and give the human being the right instructions how to live in accordance with God's will. If, however, the human being himself contributes towards silencing this voice within himself, then it is again his will to act against My commandments. For everyone is able to live in divine order if he seriously wants to .... Only the will is decisive, but this is completely free, so that a descendant of My commandments in a certain state of compulsion cannot be given the assessment which a voluntary observance of these finds with Me. Thus it makes a huge difference whether the earthly child shapes itself entirely of its own accord into an obedient, humble, God-above-all-loving being or whether such a shaping is laboriously brought about through a state of compulsion, for the latter will only be pleasing before My eyes when the earthly child voluntarily presents Me the heart .... if the coercive measures have helped to a certain extent to show the right realationship between a child and its father and it now seeks a profound connection with its creator and redeemer of its own accord. To be mindful of this right relationship is the first and most important commandment .... A child which seeks its father already thereby confesses its will to serve Him and will therefore not resist to comply with all of the father’s commandments. It will hate anything that goes against the divine commandments .... It is so unspeakably valuable to humbly submit to divine will in order to receive .... the manifestations of this will .... the word of God .... The human being is free to do this, thus it is not a commandment in itself, yet it is an indescribable blessing .... Thus I only ever make My will known to all people but do not command them .... Whatever he does, he should do voluntarily out of love for Me and out of his own need to remain in divine order. Guidelines have been given to him as to how he should fulfil My will and which is the right path to Me, to truth and to eternal life .... However, what deprives you humans of inner freedom cannot be of value .... The spirit of love must be active in you .... let it develop, then you will live entirely according to My will, then it will be easy for you to fulfil My commandments, i.e. to live entirely according to My will. Then you will also do everything the church prescribes to you, however, not because it prescribes it to you but because you want to be of service to Me, and therefore everything is right what you do out of love for Me .... Everything that is only the fulfillment of your duty but lacks love for Me is worthless. The future will teach you what measures will be taken to shake the church. Anyone who stands by Me inwardly will truly still stand like a rock in the midst of the surf, for he will lose nothing because that which he carries in his heart .... yet will be left without a foundation and deprived of external protection like chaff blown away in the wind, who was only My follower according to the letter. Everything will be empty sound to him, for his heart was distant from Me, even though he dutifully fulfilled what he was told to do as a divine commandment. Take note of this and do not burden your mind. The expressions of My will shall be offered to you as clearly as the sun, so that you will not be misled about Me and My love ....

Amen

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Recognition of the wrong way of life cause for repentance .... helpful beings ....

B.D. 0923 from May 19th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Every human being is burdened by the awareness of heavy guilt if he once takes a good look at his way of life and considers that his embodiment on earth is granted to him as a grace and that he does not use this grace as he would be able to with an earnest will. This awareness is so extremely depressing and peace-robbing but can also sometimes be the reason to give up the previous life and henceforth to concern oneself with the soul's salvation, i.e. to seriously pursue the aim and purpose of life and only then to adjust oneself such that the earthly task is taken seriously. The human being tries to make up for what has been neglected so far and can often make the pleasant discovery that a spiritually striving human being finds support from every side .... For his will became active, and this causes the spirit beings willing to help to support him in every challenge from outside that he still often encounters, which he can now offer resistance with the help of those beings. For without this helping power the striving upwards is unspeakably difficult for the human being. The purpose of life is the union with the father in heaven. Anyone who has the serious will to bring about this unification will immediately be met by beings willing to help and strengthen his plan and give him the strength to carry it out. And therefore there can be no relapse once the will for perfection has come alive in the human being, for the eternal deity seizes the child, as it were, which longs for Him and places it in the midst of a sphere of activity which enables it to live this perfection and to use its life to the best of its ability for eternity. And from now on the human being will no longer be able to resist divine love, he will recognize the deity, firmly trust It, give himself into Its will and thus be completely permeated by the divine saviour, and all actions and thoughts will only apply to the reunion with the heavenly father, and once peace has entered his heart the human being will recognize that he is walking the right path which leads upwards ....

Amen

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Blessings of deep faith .... fulfilment of prayer .... knowledge ....

B.D. 0924 from May 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

People will feel the blessings of a profound faith if they are in great distress .... If they are earthly without help and turn to divinity in trust, their faith alone is the anchor which promises the most certain salvation, and the human being does not know to what extent he himself is often the cause that his request for help will be granted .... for a lack of faith endangers the fulfilment of his prayer, whereas a firm, unshakeable faith is already the fulfilment in itself, for those who believe in the lord are His true children to whom the father denies nothing and thus bodily and spiritually listens to their requests .... A beliving child on earth will never put his own will first, but submit to the divine will in all requests and supplications and gratefully and devotedly accept everything from the father’s hand .... And to these the lord rewards their faith and does not leave them abandoned and helpless in adversity and misery. And now the human being will also be able to understand that this very lack of faith causes earthly hardship more and more tangibly .... he will understand that the apparent harshness and unkindness of the deity, which is therefore also the reason why the human being often rejects the deity at all .... conjured up by humanity itself .... that the God of love cannot listen to the prayers of those who do not ask with profound faith, but only tentatively demanding that their wishes be taken into account .... This would be a danger for the human being, for it would only ever promote arrogance, disbelief and purely material thinking instead of reducing it, and in spiritual terms it would only have a corrupting effect; And if the human being does not recognize the strength of faith and feel it in himself, the spiritual question will also remain unsolved, for he will only grasp it when he believes. Spiritual results cannot be proven earthly, and only profound faith can fill the gaps left open by human intellect, and in profound faith alone also lies the power to become wise beyond human knowledge. Every thought based on profound faith is received spiritual knowledge and as such is indisputable truth, and if the human being therefore also brings faith to such strength that it cannot be shaken by anything, he will constantly receive thoughts which are nothing other than spiritual strength conveyed to him, which allows extraordinary abilities to develop in the thus believing earthly child, and thus faith alone is the cause when the human being can overcome the most inconceivable obstacles and become master of them, for he passes the battle with the help of spiritual strength which the father in heaven gives to His earthly child because it fully trusts Him. And thus every prayer which comes from the bottom of the heart and is undoubtedly sent up to the father is immensely beneficial, because then the human being will have profound faith and the blessings of such faith will be bestowed upon him to an unlimited extent ....

Amen

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Weakness of the spirit .... reduction of the ability to receive ....

B.D. 0925 from May 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The spirit's state of weakness has to be overcome, for there is too great a task to be accomplished to allow for the unwillingness. And only serious will is ever needed to remedy such a state of unwillingness, for the human being should joyfully receive .... but that spirit wich is weak cannot joyfully accept what it is commanded. It has such an impact on the teaching spirits when the earthly child does not pay full attention to the teachings, they cannot easily make themselves felt and cannot transfer the strength if the recipient is not receptive. Therefore it would also not be possible to convey deeply spiritual good to you if the spirit is weak and cannot follow attentively. The more willingly the earthly child devotes itself to this work the easier it will find it to receive, and even if apparent advantages could motivate the human being to interrupt the connection from the beyond to earth for a short time, this would nevertheless be a gross neglect of the divine commandment or rather of God's announced will, for this determined you to receive the word and you were completely free to accept this office or not. But your unique promise must also be maintained and may not be arbitrarily withdrawn or invalidated, for those who teach you eagerly await the moment every day when you turn your thoughts upwards and prepare to receive it. And therefore it is so unspeakably blessed if you can establish the connection with the lord quite often during the day, if the state of alienation is never again the reason for neglecting the reception, for only an earthly child which is willing to receive and joyfully awaits is completely able to bring such a work to completion, for the truth should be desired with a hungry heart in order to be recognized as such and can also be passed on. For God's wisdom is profound and can only be understood when the earthly child is in fullest agreement with its otherworldly teacher. And then such an earthly child will rather forego earthly joys and pleasures than surrender the connection with the world of the beyond and appreciate the great grace of being united with its saviour and redeemer and hearing His call, Who displays His great love ....

Amen

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Mental influence by co-responsible spiritual beings .... enlightenment by superior beings ....

B.D. 0926 from May 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Those spiritual beings are active in visible proximity to earth whose task it is to inform people of the constant transformation of everything that lives on the earth's surface. This task is only possible in the form of thought transmission, and thus their work will mostly extend to showing people the various forms of creation quite vividly so that they will start to think about them and ask questions, the answer to which is precisely the activity of those spiritual beings and is therefore conveyed to people by the spiritual beings in the form of thoughts. It is easy to explain that not all thoughts transmitted in this way will be accepted as answers, indeed they will often be rejected as untrustworthy and not taken seriously as their own thoughts. And so all efforts of the spiritual beings in the beyond are in vain, the earthly child is exposed to constant harassment, namely by those beings whose mental influence they reject. These beings cannot be dismissed at will since they have a certain connection or spiritual affiliation with earthly people and are therefore also to a certain extent jointly responsible for their spiritual state of maturity. And it therefore happens not infrequently that all spiritual affections depress the human being, i.e. that he is forced to deal with such thoughts which burden him. He will try to shoo them away but again and again they arise, either to make the human heart indignant or also to make it deeply thoughtful, in order to ultimately recognize the truth of such thoughts after all and to pay more attention to them from now on. The spiritual friends can exercise the teaching ministry and also did so eagerly until now but were rarely consciously listened to, and that is what makes it so difficult for the human being to progress. But those who willingly give themselves to the helpful forces, their state of maturity is much more likely to be guaranteed. Only in exceptional cases will earthly children be instructed by very highly placed spiritual beings, but this again for the purpose of a general enlightenment of the whole of humanity in order to help it in great adversity, and then the thought transmission happens in such a strange way that the human being should pay attention and make use of such exceptional attention the greater the adversity on earth is and visibly becomes apparent. And even if the human being refuses to accept spiritual good which is offered in this way .... wisdom from the heavens will prevail for the blessing of those who do not resist and as a constant reminder to those who think little or not at all of their mental condition .... One day they will have to recognize that they put up resistance to all good spiritual influence and therefore got into dire straits, and their struggle in the beyond will be a far more difficult one in order to attain the truth, for since they rejected spiritual support in earthly life they now have to live in want and now make every effort on their part to achieve what they could effortlessly achieve on earth. For the struggle in the beyond is far more difficult than on earth ....

Amen

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Lack of faith .... power of prayer .... coincidences ....

B.D. 0927 from May 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Remember the lord everywhere and at all times, and you will also become aware of His faithful care in all adversity. Anyone who places himself in His care truly need not worry about what tomorrow will bring, and anyone who lifts his eyes to Him in right trust will find his fate in God's hands. The person of little faith, on the other hand, resists the danger from outside and yet cannot turn it away from himself, for he needs it to awaken or increase his faith and trust in the lord, and if he is timid and does not grant his prayer strength he will have a hard time fighting, and this is only due to his lack of faith. In the forthcoming time all those who lack faith will be in dire straits and a palpable pressure will weigh upon them .... (24.5.1939) For example, people put themselves in the position of having to make a decision in an important matter and not being oriented to how the consequences of the decision he has made, he will always feel a certain uncertainty and understandably ask for advice, and then he will turn to someone who is able to assess both the benefit and the harm which every decision entails, and he will advise him to his advantage. But in exactly the same way the divine saviour also wants to be asked for His advice in every earthly matter, because He is nevertheless able to create the greatest possible advantage for the earthly child, which not only has a physical but also a purely spiritual effect on it. But this again requires first establishing the childlike connection with the father, for only a child is able to pray so intimately to the father that it will also be fulfilled. And therefore the lord also called out to all of you: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest ...." And if the father in heaven gives you this assurance, your faith shall be based on these words .... You shall unconditionally accept what the lord and saviour says .... you shall not doubt and not hesitate to comply with the divine will and carry an unlimited trust in Him in your heart .... And you shall remember the everlasting care of the divine lord. Not for one second does the lord withdraw His will from you, His creatures. The most diverse coincidences in life should make people think that, according to a certain wise plan, all events in life happen as they do, and these coincidences are only the visible intervention of an invisible power. And therefore the human being must also stand in the midst of all events, and the controller of all works of creation must also be granted the power to be able to avert the destined fates at will, and therefore the human being needs prayer so that he himself has it in his hands to hand over everything difficult to the divine lord and thereby be allowed to walk his earthly path unburdened and thus, to a certain extent, to choose the path which brings him the greatest advantage in spiritual matters, which brings him the greatest spiritual advantage without, however, excluding divine strength, for it is only this which ensures the right success for the being on earth .... but which has to be asked for consciously and therefore the human being recognizes the divinity with deep faith and Its working in love, omnipotence and wisdom ....

Amen

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Battle of faith .... method .... criticism .... God's protection ....

B.D. 0928 from May 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The battle for the souls is such a difficult and responsible one that every effort must be made if the erring souls are not to be lost forever. And thus the lord has wisely decreed that all assistance shall be granted to them where they struggle for knowledge, and all grants of grace shall be expressed where only the slightest will strives towards the truth. This is the basic realization from which it must be obvious to you humans that only God's infinite love is always at work to redeem humanity and therefore also works so extraordinarily. In the near future everyone will have to struggle to remain true to himself .... He will first have to fight the battle of faith with himself and will have to ask God for great strength to stand firm when everything around him threatens to falter. Likewise, a general obvious method of struggle will be used, which will hostile and persecute every spiritual direction that has not passed through the supreme criticism. The last attempt will be to try to determine people, regardless of denomination, to renounce the old doctrine and join a new direction which, however, contradicts Christ's teaching and must therefore have a ruinous effect on humanity. The general spiritual decline will be the reason why no great resistance will oppose this endeavour, and the hardship will be ever greater since the soul will distance itself ever further from the only truth and therefore also from the eternal deity. For humanity's aim is complete detachment but not unification with Him .... The consequences of this effort will be all the more dreadful, because the gulf that separates people from the truth and correct recognition is getting bigger and bigger. Notwithstanding this, the bearers of power presume to intervene in divine activity .... And anyone who willingly serves Him and works to instruct erring souls will likewise be protected on all His paths and may always be certain of divine protection. For the world is incapable of destroying divine will, even though it constantly strives towards spiritual downfall .... Where God's will opposes its beginning, even the greatest ruler will be powerless, whereas the human being who is willing to serve God and submits to divine will will be extremely strong and resistant. The human being can certainly err and be guilty of the greatest sin by allowing himself to act against divine wisdom, yet the world will truly not reward him such that he would benefit from it forever .... but following the divine instructions will result in a thousand blessings, for all souls who are shown the right path upwards will thank their saviours for all eternity, and their gratitude will truly be a reward which exceeds all earthly rewards a thousandfold ....

Amen

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Awakening from spiritual sleep .... light .... spiritual sun ....

B.D. 0929 from May 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The day of awakening from spiritual sleep is not preceded by any signs but a ray of light will suddenly fall into the darkness of the spirit, and anyone who has once entered the area of the ray of light will follow its exit, and henceforth it is light and clear around him and in him, for now the divine power, the spirit of love from eternity .... Just as the light inevitably breaks through the darkness, the night of the spirit has now also become a victim of the dawning day with the glimmer of knowledge. Everything that was hitherto hidden in darkness comes to light and is exposed to every test and can now freely unfold and shape itself. And it would be completely impossible to leave the previous dark spiritual state without spiritual knowledge. Accordingly, all spirit must also be flooded with light from God and see a fettered state in the darkest dwelling of spiritual darkness, for it was given the ability to develop itself, yet the still worldly soul keeps it under its spell, and release from it is no sooner until a loving being musters all will to liberate the spirit from all fetters. It is able to do much through its love, it also feels oppressed itself when it has to stand apart where light and life beckons and it lies in its power to change the dark night into brightest day. Thus it is of extraordinary importance that the human being first recognizes himself .... that he is able to distinguish whether the state of the soul longs for light or feels more comfortable in perpetual darkness of spirit and is therefore not yet ready for enlightenment of spirit. It is indescribably difficult to let the spiritual sun shine for those who are completely blind in spirit, they will neither see nor hear, for they look upon their darkened state with pleasure, as it were, and believe themselves to be knowledgeable and far superior to the spiritually enlightened, and they don't believe they need the light of enlightenment. It is difficult to help them, and only a person who is constantly inadequately thought of can finally be seized by the desire for light if he recognizes his state of soul as the cause of an unsatisfied life and is now intent on obtaining enlightenment of spirit for himself .... and thus consciously desires light ....

Amen

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Mystery of the trinity .... God the father .... God the son ....

B.D. 0930 from May 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Behold, My child, I look into your heart and know your will to serve Me, yet I miss your soul's faith in the omnipotence of divine love, and thus you will always hesitate when obstacles stand in your way, where unreserved faith can remove these obstacles, for the one who desires My love will never be abandoned by Me, and if he now needs My help it will always be given to him in all places. And if your heart urges you towards Me I will be close to you and keep everything away from you which could disturb the connection with My child. For I need souls who trust Me .... I still have much to say to you and am therefore always ready for you if your heart desires Me.

And so detach your thoughts from the world and hear the voice from above: The mystery of the divine trinity has always been for man the cliff on which he has failed. And that is why today you will again receive an instruction which, without leaving any doubt, shall contribute to the solution in all clarity and easily reveal the problem to the thinking person .... And thus the spirit from God came alive and the light shone brightly and clearly .... divinity is able to shelter itself in all fullness in a being, but that the pure spirit is inseparable and the most unworthy being is in closest contact with it, that therefore also only this inseparable spirit is to be understood by the eternal divinity and everything that has emerged from it is only the spirit out of God .... which no longer correctly recognizes the feeling of belonging to it and thus separates or removes itself, but nevertheless is always only divine product, therefore is always and eternally as original substance spiritual from God .... Who therefore removes himself from the divinity no longer recognizes himself, but nevertheless remains what he is .... but who seeks the connection with It his spiritual senses the affiliation and is therefore consciously the same .... And now you will be able to grasp that the mystery of the trinity of God can be explained as follows: God's love made itself known to human beings as father .... thus as the origin of humanity .... Love bridged humanity's separation from its creator and thus embodied itself in a human being Whose spirit recognized its belonging to God and Who was thus, as it were, one with the divine father-spirit. And thus the human being was only externally a being in itself, the spirit, however, was God's .... The original relationship was established, the spirit recognized itself, and thus God was in all fullness in that Which became His abode on earth in order to be visible to humanity. The divinity united with the human body had become visible, as it were, in order to let people recognize the distance they had created for themselves. Divine love had thus become active and now also placed divine wisdom in the heart of the God-man. For His spirit was one with God and therefore also had to be in all wisdom and be able to serve all divine strength .... God's wisdom had to express itself through the mouth of man, and thus all of Jesus' activity on earth was God's activity through the son of man, but not that a second being expressed Itself through it. And the concept God the father .... God the son cannot be explained in any other way than that the eternal father-spirit revealed Himself through the mouth of a human being, that God the son is therefore the same as God the father, only made comprehensible to the human being through Jesus Christ, Who overcame the separation from the father-spirit precisely through the realization of the unity with eternal love .... No one comes to the father but through Me .... This is probably easier to explain than that everyone who wants to unite with the father must also recognize that the divine spirit in him is inseparably connected with the father spirit and that everyone has to find this way and therefore follow the divine redeemer in everything, Who exemplified His life to those who like Him desire to go to the father. This is not possible in any other way than only by following Jesus, Who as son of man gave the example that only the spirit from God has to recognize its affiliation to Him and that there are then no more barriers which separate it from the father ....

Amen

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Epitome of bliss .... redeeming the soul .... poor in spirit ....

B.D. 0931 from May 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Anyone who chooses Me as his guide is exempt from all spiritual adversity, for he will be guided correctly and even the hour of death will not frighten him, for he only sees Me and longs for Me and gratefully places his earthly life into My hands. And only now does his right life begin, and the embodiment of this life is Me, for henceforth My love is his bliss, My nearness inexpressible bliss and My kingdom eternal glory .... those who love Me desire Me with all intimacy and I will fulfill their desire and I will satisfy their longing and immediately arouse them anew, so that the being that is Mine trembles with an unexpected feeling of happiness .... that it only has to love Me ever more ardently and also fulfils My will in the beyond with devoted love. And this fulfilling of My will is, in turn, the release of the souls from the bonds of darkness .... Whoever is in love must understand that I dearly love all these poor in spirit and await their final return to their father’s house .... And so I keep all doors open and await their entrance .... And I will show them the right way with all patience, and whoever follows Me will soon recognize the right guidance and seek to remain in constant contact with Me. And all spirit will be transferred into such a willing earth child who follows Me .... And this will truly have the opportunity to give the world a testimony of My love, and well he who hears this testimony and thanks Me that I want to rescue him from spiritual trouble. I want to think these struggling souls in a very special way, if they only desire Me, even if their state is still immature they shall nevertheless have every opportunity to enter into the right relationship with Me, and then I will seize this earthly child with double love and surround it with all love, and this will be proof to it that I truly only care about the individual's salvation. And from then on your life will only be love, for you cannot help but live in Me and with Me once you have offered Me your heart and I take hold of it with My will, which contains My love and wisdom and knows all hearts .... I want to make people infintely happy and only need your consent, which again only consists of you giving Me your heart voluntarily, i.e., preparing the dwelling place for Me in you so that one day I can give you the same dwelling place in the house of the one Who has been your father since the beginning ....

Amen

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Voice of conscience .... redemptive work on earth ....

B.D. 0932 from May 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Let this be a warning to you that you should pay more attention to the voice within yourselves, for it is the demands of the world which drown them out, and in the world's affairs you pay no attention to the divine demands which are revealed to you through this voice. And therefore the earthly struggle is the only means, for it is most likely to cause you to consult yourselves and this can be beneficial to your inner life. But in constant listening to oneself lies an exceedingly great blessing, and this contributes immensely to self-improvement, for the human being seeks to give an account of all thought and action and to bring it into connection with the destiny imposed upon him. And the human being's thinking is even more stimulated in cases where it concerns direct manifestations of divine will; these will correspond with what the human being himself perceives in the form of the inner voice, the conscience. Every right-thinking person will have to affirm these announcements where they are guidelines which every person should accept and follow .... The divine will will not make an opposing sense .... the same thing will always be demanded of everyone .... to live in love for God and one’s neighbour. And everyone will profoundly recognize the injustice of his actions if he acts in a way contrary to the divine commandments.

The large community of those who work to save erring souls are in closest contact with the eternal deity, for in order to be able to participate in such work of salvation it is necessary that they, to a certain degree, have also become partakers of the blessings of the act of salvation and that they have already found the path to God, that they, for their part, are now in full realization, thus that they are fully conscious executors of the divine will. Consequently, the human being who serves the lord on earth in such a way that he willingly helps the erring souls has fulfilled all prerequisites in order to attain a certain degree of maturity, for he now does everything on earth on God's behalf, since His will constantly influences him and the earthly child consciously and voluntarily complies with this divine will. And thus it will be understandable that all paths have to be taken as is good in order to be able to be redemptively active, but that the human being's free will has always been a prerequisite before God's will takes hold of it, and therefore the human being is certainly outwardly active as a human being but always on behalf of the lord, and therefore everything he undertakes in order to serve God and have a redeeming effect will be blessed; All the powers of heaven are at such an earthly child's disposal, and if the spirit of the latter has set the unification with the eternal deity as its aim then it will certainly achieve it, for it may only want to, and its will is, as it were, God's will which no obstacle can oppose. And everything will obey his will. And again the question arises for the human being as to which office the eternal deity has given to the human being whose task it is to have a redeeming effect. And it cannot be sufficiently pointed out that every activity achieves redemption which is love in itself .... Only love can signify redemption, only in love does God work Himself and therefore directly .... And whatever God does must ultimately bring salvation to unsaved beings. For every work came into being through God's love only for the redemption of all spiritual beings which are in a banished state through their own fault. People's spiritual state on earth does not allow for complete redemption as long as love is switched off in all people's thoughts and actions. But conversely, a person who has completely become a lover can have a strong redeeming effect on his surroundings through mental influence. In deepest agreement with the eternal deity he can make all strength from God his own and with the help of this strength assist the entities around him and likewise awaken their spirit, and the slightest prayer to the father calls for this strength. However, the eternal deity does not allow the path to realization to be completely bypassed .... so that a being can effortlessly attain what is the purpose of earth life .... The will to do what is right must determine the human being to abandon himself to the work of the deity so that the power of God can then express itself there precisely through the earthly child which is active in love and destined for the redemption of erring souls, which is preformed for this purpose and chosen by God to successfully meet the spiritual adversity on earth and to rule over people for the blessing of its ministry ....

Amen

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School of the spirit .... earth life as a station of education ....

B.D. 0933 from May 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Every individual creature is subject to the law to complete the school of the spirit, and it has to do this compulsorily through all periods of development in order to, however, be released from compulsion in the last stage and now be free to make use of the possibilities which serve spiritual development. The earthly child can be taught in the most exhaustive way if it only wants to be taught .... Spiritual strength is always at its disposal to initiate it into everything worth knowing for the salvation of its soul. It also constantly receives spiritual admonitions which it can hear through the inner voice, and all this is only ever a means to an end to achieve the spiritual state of maturity in order to reach that height which signifies the sphere of light for the earthly being and which differs considerably from the unfinished beings' stay outside of this sphere. As long as the human being does nothing to improve his spiritual state, as long as he is only purely earthly concerned about his well-being, the soul's state will always remain the same as when it entered earthly existence. Then the soul will have reached a dead end .... it will not strive for higher development, it will neither seek spiritual nourishment nor knowledge and thus will not change its state in the slightest .... However, time on earth will slip away and days and years will be spent useless .... For the soul has no part in all experiences but only the body. What would be the soul's share is not tangible to the human being and thus often not desirable. And yet the only important thing on earth is that the spirit be awakened and come to development. For only then is earthly life the educational station for the human being, when the soul strives towards ever higher realization and thus consciously completes the school of the spirit and the result is the state of perfection, which ensures entry into spheres of light after bodily death and is therefore the purpose and aim of embodiment as a human being ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Father words of love .... audible voice ....

B.D. 0934 from May 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

This is the right relationship with God, that the earthly child completely gives itself to Him and only wants to live in His will. Hence you humans will only be able to partake of the father’s blessings once you have recognized this correctly, for the father gives His child without restriction whatever it desires and thus also the abundance of blessings which the child requests. And if it receives these in all humility it can be called rich beyond measure, for then it will have everything it needs to come to the father for eternity. And thus every offering contains a treasure of grace within itself, and this should prompt you to lift the treasure quite often, for you thereby receive nourishment for the spirit and strength from God. Therefore hear the divine voice: I include everything in the omnipotence of My love that gives itself to Me, and those who feel it within themselves that I am close to them completely detach their hearts from the world and only want to hear My voice. And it will be like a soft murmur in their heart and they will not grasp it but lean towards Me ever more longingly, and I will increase this longing and stir up the fervour in their hearts, and an inconceivable feeling of happiness will reveal My presence .... And this is the sign that I have taken possession of the heart, that I have chosen it as My dwelling place and never want to sever the connection, and if the earth child then listens within it will be able to hear My voice and receive My word directly. And it shall be this encouragement to you, My child .... The body is earthly but the spirit is Mine .... and in spirit you will be united with Me, therefore don't pay attention to the body and don't let it be an obstacle to the connection with Me. You have passed through worlds, separated from Me, yet the hour of unification is near and soon I will fetch My child home .... but first you still have to fulfil what I have chosen you for. You have to go through trials which will let you reach the state of maturity in the near future, and then nothing will stand in your way of unification with Me. The soul remains unaware of the great grace bestowed upon it, it certainly feels the benefit of its release from long-lasting bondage but cannot appreciate the salvation that has befallen it, that it has been chosen to participate in a blessing which particularly influences the inner life and can only be felt deep within the heart. Anyone who is not inflamed by love for Me cannot assess the value of this blessing either, and therefore he is a privileged one who is close to Me in love, for I Myself want to reveal Myself to him and make him the most blissful being already on earth, so that he will recognize the father in Me and come to Me in childlike humility that I will bless him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Angel passing through the world .... natural phenomena .... distress - worry .... poem

B.D. 0935 from May 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

And there goes an angel through the land, and his endeavour is to bring light to the people and to hold them back from the abyss towards which they are heading. And so it happens on behalf of the lord that the world experiences great things and is visibly kept agitated. The sun covers itself and only rarely lets its rays penetrate to earth, or it scorches in great fervour where it is divine will. And the earth is afflicted in every way; the powers of heaven and earth unite to let men become attentive through every event. And people's minds are to be burdened so that they long for release from this pressure and contribute to it themselves by trying to make life easier for each other where it seems unbearable. And this angel who walks through the world makes himself known in the roaring of the storm, in the whispering of the wind, in scorching heat, in pouring rain, in lightning and thunder and in every natural phenomenon, in every disaster .... for all this is God's will and therefore only imposed on people by His permission. And wherever the human intellect would like to try to explain and justify the correlations of all this in a meaningful way, the law of nature is still not sufficiently explained that it excludes the rule and activity of the eternal deity. It is the human intellect that erects a barrier and blocks the way to the knowledge of God. Think less and believe more and you will nevertheless increase in knowledge and soon have a rich treasure, and then the endeavour of the commissioned angel will have succeeded in bringing you enlightenment if you pay attention to everything that happens in nature around you and lift your gaze upwards ....

Need and worry

Take note of the fact that in the world

sorrow is making its entrance ....

that suffering is constantly pressing you

until you look up to heaven ....

For in the coming time on earth

only immune to suffering is he

who always trusts only in Him ....

Whoever looks up to Him in faith

escapes the torment and misery,

for He, as lord over life and death ....

He will help you at all times,

He will keep all suffering away from the one

who begs Him for protection ....

He will hear the prayer

when the child on earth

find the way to his father in trouble

and is ready to serve Him ....

This child remains His for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Life .... spirit from God .... natural law ....

B.D. 0936 from May 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Life is everything that contains the spirit from God. But thus all life will also be conditioned by God's spirit, i.e. God's strength will always have to be active in order to enliven matter, and thus matter and God's spirit always come into contact, and that’s how life comes into being .... a being that is constantly becoming active itself .... and this activity is the working of spiritual strength and can be observed everywhere. Every newly created living being is bound to the activity which is its destiny according to divine law. All spirit from God assigns the specific activity to the being, and the being now carries out the activity which is intended for it by the creator. And all activity of living beings is based on a certain order. The more regular duties a living being has to carry out, the more obvious the divine order becomes, which people then describe with the word 'natural law'. A certain regularity can indeed be observed, and this reveals the spiritual influence which is exerted on every being on the part of the creator .... but at the same time it is the best proof that a will controls everything and that this will is continuously active so that the living being does not cease to be. For even if endless times pass, the earth will continue to be alive, and this life will always be conditioned by spiritual strength .... And the spiritual strength will always and forever bear witness to a supreme being Which constantly sends this strength into the universe. If everything on earth were completely motionless and therefore dead, then divine or spiritual activity could certainly be denied, yet life itself, which always appears to people in all things, is the most telling evidence of a constantly expressing strength, and if the human being himself remains constantly active he will also fulfil the destiny which was assigned to him from the beginning, thus he will use the spiritual strength and, to a certain extent, live his external life as a human being and at the same time a spiritual life, to which he is likewise impelled by spiritual strength; thus he will fulfil a task which is assigned to him, either in a purely earthly sense or also as a life-giver in a spiritual respect .... only everything will and must live, because the spirit from God cannot tolerate anything dead, for He Himself is, after all, the true life and the greatest spirit of love from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth .... willpower .... bridge through love ....

B.D. 0937 from May 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Blessed are those who seek strength and salvation in My name and resist all evil influence. All spirit is alive through the will to serve Me, and thus it recognizes the profound value of truth and its eternal existence. For what is sent to you as My word can never ever pass away .... For My word is truly eternal life ....

Amen

By virtue of the human being's own willpower it is possible for him to live in utmost truth, yet he must also desire it from the bottom of his heart and in all abundance and then let this desire become active through his will. He must do everything himself which smoothes the path to truth for him .... He must establish the connection with God, as the eternal truth Himself .... and he must prove himself worthy to receive the truth from God's hand .... He must also do everything which can lead to the expansion of his knowledge by placing himself at the disposal of the supreme being of God to receive His will, His word and thus the eternal truth in order to make it accessible to humanity again. For the lord of heaven and earth always and at all times wants to give strength, comfort and help to His creations, and this through His word. He constantly remembers humanity with love and expresses this love through the giving of His word. And for this He needs earthly children who devote themselves to Him of their own free will, who are, as it were, the mediators between Him and humanity .... who offer themselves to Him and completely submit to His will .... A bridge is built, as it were, and the lord descends to people in infinite love, lovingly inclines Himself towards them, gives pure truth and thus turns people's hearts towards Him. With gentle love He draws to Himself those who longingly stretch out their hands to Him, He soothes their pain, comforts them in suffering, He lets them look into His kingdom by instructing them and informing them of His working and activity, both on earth as well as in the beyond, and thus increases love for Him .... anyone who desires the truth also hears the gentle call of the eternal deity .... he follows it and allows himself to be grasped by the loving father’s hand. The soul may hesitate at times, but the spirit within recognizes the truth, and thousands of little angels keep watch that the soul of a truth-loving child does not stray. For the will is strength in itself, and where the will turns towards divinity the still weak soul will find support and thus be able to offer resistance if it is threatened by human or earthly danger. Only a quiet plea to be guided the right way protects it from all error, and thus those who desire such and offer themselves to God the lord for the service of suffering humanity, which walks in spiritual darkness, will be instructed in truth without interruption. The soul certainly senses the right path but in its inexperience it often hesitates to make use of the messages it receives and therefore remains doubtful and uncertain until help comes in the form of heartfelt prayer which the human being sends to the father for clarity and recognition of truth .... Then it will become light and bright in him, and he will be able to clearly distinguish the teachings of heaven from the teachings of the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Neglect of earthly work .... sloth .... idleness ....

B.D. 0938 from May 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Notice how you have to fight harder and harder against inner restlessness the more you withdraw from the regular activity of the day, for it is a blessing for you if you are constantly active in earthly relationships. The person has a mental balance which also makes him more capable of spiritual striving; moreover, this can only serve as proof to fellow human beings that the profession need not suffer for the sake of spiritual work. And this is of greatest importance - the approaching time of spiritual awakening must at the same time be marked by exceedingly brisk physical activity, for only through such is also the proof supplied that a morbid condition need not necessarily be the occasion for strange spiritual activity, that rather the one can harmonize very well with the other and earthly work need not suffer any loss. And so you only receive the admonition to devote yourself to spiritual work with all eagerness, to always give it first priority, but at the same time to also do justice to all earthly demands as far as it is compatible with the former. At the same time this gives an inner satisfaction which in turn contributes to the earthly child giving itself over to its spiritual work with all love and devotion and is thus much more and better able to work in this field. The slightest sluggishness of the body also has a hindering effect on the soul; the human being becomes reluctant to do any work, and it again requires days of inner struggle before the old relationship is established, because many other impressions have shaken the connection with the father and only with great will can all disturbances be overcome. For it is increasingly difficult to receive these announcements the further away the earth child is from its father. And where the human being allows himself to be distracted from the actual activity of the spirit his comprehension is also impaired, and then the human being is often confronted with questions which are inexplicable to him, the answers to which cannot be received so easily because the necessary understanding for them is lacking, yet this only ever happens when the earthly child neglects the spiritual work and pays more attention to earthly events. For the temptation is very strong .... the adversary seeks to make it apostate wherever he possibly can. So be on your guard, keep in prayer and constant activity, for idleness has never brought about any good, therefore the human being should beware of it as long as he is still able to perform earthly work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Consequences of spiritual backwardness ....

B.D. 0939 from May 31th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

People's spiritual state is far more alarming than you believe, for you still walk along with great peace of mind where you would have to turn away in horror if you wanted to recognize the spiritual state correctly. And it is of utmost importance for you to receive enlightenment as to the consequences of your backwardness. You attach almost no importance to spiritual higher development in earthly life but only pay attention to the body and its desires, but you don't pay attention to the soul and don't know how dreadful the effects of your sluggishness are for the soul, how no salvation can be brought to you other than that the danger which threatens you physically and mentally is so vividly brought before your eyes .... You look back on your life at the end of days without any satisfaction, for it brought you no progress whatsoever, and all suffering on earth is small compared to the great suffering which now awaits you on the other side. And it would be easy for you to take part in all spiritual work if you only hold this 'later' in front of yourselves .... Life demands total commitment if you want to master it and rise to the lordship over all useless weaklings who shy away from the struggle for life. In the same way, the spiritual life always only demands mindfulness, determination and utmost truthfulness .... But then you will also overcome earthly life and an eternal life in all glory will beckon to you, you will then, instead of serving, be able to rule over the spiritually unfit weaklings, you will be able to rule over the spiritually unfit or arrogant souls in the beyond .... It will bring you unspeakable delight to look back at life and to be fully aware that it was used correctly for spiritual progress, you will realize that only the knowledge of spiritual things can weigh in the balance, and earthly knowledge is valued at zero by the divine saviour and redeemer .... You will accept all offered spiritual things as pure truth and seek to enrich yourselves with treasures of all kinds which, however, only let love for God and your neighbour arise in you and are therefore purest spiritual possessions, for all earthly endeavours will be recognized as useless and worthless at the end of days, and such recognition will let people die in remorse and self-reproach .... this feeling of remorse cannot be chased away arbitrarily, but endless times gnaw at the person when he has left earthly life. And therefore, again and again he will receive instructions during his lifetime to prevent him from having to perish in the beyond under suffering and remorse. And humanity should pay attention to this and only try a little to give an account of how far it contributes to promoting the spiritual state itself, and then compete to still reach the highest possible level of perfection on earth .... This struggle is certainly difficult, but of such unspeakably beneficial influence, since it gives man the opportunity to leave earth as a being of light and enter the kingdom of the beyond. For everything the father in heaven gives is a sign of His steadfast love, which wants to protect you from severe suffering and therefore sends His grace to people in abundance, so that everyone will receive what he needs to strengthen his spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength of faith .... God's help ....

B.D. 0940 from June 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The earthly child feels abandoned when days of hardship and worry befall it, and it does not want to recognize the blessing of such trials. It finds it difficult to turn upwards in its abandonment because it does not fully trust. And yet it cannot be helped until it feels in its deepest heart that only one can help and that appealing to this one for help is the only means to end its suffering. And again it has to be said that it is therefore up to the human being himself to alleviate his suffering, that he first has to gain deepest faith and then it will be easy for him to turn away all suffering or to overcome it as quickly as possible. Therefore let it be said to you: You will still have to endure much and can only faithfully hand over all your suffering to the lord, but then you will also visibly recognize God's help and your life will be an easy one. Try to attain this realization and make it your aim to bring your faith to that strength which is necessary to be able to defy everything difficult, and you will easily overcome what otherwise seems insurmountable to you. And so go about your day's work and consider the following: Numerous helpers are at your side and give you advice in all things. Spiritual strength is available to you if you only ask for it. It is only up to your will to request it and it will be unreservedly conveyed to you, thus there is also no need for hesitation in worldly worries, for the father in heaven gives without restriction what His children desire from Him, and the support of helpful spiritual friends can also be requested and is assured to you as long as you are only willing to serve the lord in willing devotion and ask for the stength to do so .... For the humanity's soul is the most important thing. Everything that is now in the service of the lord and active for Him need not fear the decline of physical efficiency, for inexhaustible sources of help are at its disposal and truly only require profound, undoubted faith. And therefore ask for it from the bottom of your heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Refinement of the fellow human being .... rejection .... hour of recognition ....

B.D. 0941 from June 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

This is the right faith when the human being sees My working in all events and does everything with complete trust what his heart advises him to do. I am constantly close to you and guide and direct you, and therefore your actions cannot go against My will where your constant striving is for the spreading of My word. The only path to realization only leads through the commandments of love .... Whoever takes care of a soul with a loving heart already thereby brings the divine influx close to it. He will have an extraordinary ability to influence people mentally, he will, as it were, find contact with the still unawakened spirit through love and stimulate it to become active. Everything in the human being longs to be released from the bondage, it is only in a completely inactive state and has therefore become powerless, therefore it is also in urgent need of stimulation. The human being believes that he can reject everything spiritual, always in the erroneous opinion that he thereby escapes responsibility, but he does not recognize his own situation .... and therefore does not make an effort to save .... Although he remains in constant defence, he inwardly pursues these thoughts and his unused earthly change will become frighteningly clear to him .... The spirit in him relentlessly demands justice and can no longer be held captive .... he heeds the voice from beyond and has to accept it against his will. And so all spiritual striving is accompanied by success, even if it is often not very visible, for the human being will only very rarely openly admit how deeply the lord's words touch him. He does not want to admit it to himself and yet is under the spell of the word which comes from above. The burdens of earth fade into the background, and henceforth the bridge to the beyond is no longer impassable, but often taken up by seeking, yet doubting earth children. And all this can be achieved by the love of a person in the service of the lord who only strives for and wants to give the ennoblement of his fellow human beings, and since only the joy of giving underlies the action, the seed will not have fallen on stony ground either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vocabulary .... self-suggestion .... transcripts ....

B.D. 0942 from June 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Man's vocabulary is enormous when it comes to recording and writing down eternal truths. It is in every way remarkable how often man is willing to believe that words lie dormant in the subconscious and are thus brought to light by self-suggestion. This is all the more erroneous the more rarely man is able to draw from his own knowledge. So-called suggestion would only be possible if knowledge existed in man (would be = ed.) but for some reason fell into oblivion (would have fallen into oblivion = ed.). If, however, transcripts arise on a scale far beyond the knowledge of the person concerned, then all the efforts of the doubters are in vain and every objection to find an explanation in this possibility is invalid. It must always be borne in mind that the writer himself has hitherto been completely isolated from all knowledge and that the thought activity of the person concerned is, humanly speaking, not particularly called upon, that therefore his own working out of thoughts is out of the question but that these thoughts, as it were, come to the writer without the slightest effort and are only received through the human being's will. Every such proclamation requires a fully knowledgeable teacher as the giver and a receptive, i.e. fully willingly surrendering earth child to spiritual power. Only in this way can the emergence of the same be explained .... while so-called self-suggestion is still a concept for people whose complete explanation they cannot give themselves, for they do not seek to find the only correct solution based on spiritual principles, but they draw boundaries for themselves beyond which they are not willing to look .... and can therefore never fathom the last and thus also not correctly explain a process which can only be explained purely spiritually. The strangest assumptions have given rise to people's fearful frowning upon any such influence of invisible forces .... Because it is not completely comprehensible to them, they keep away from everything of this kind instead of striving for clear knowledge about it .... Only the human being who demands to stand in fullest truth is not content with such an inadequate explanation, as the words 'self-suggestion' and 'subconsciousness' will indisputably always remain such. For people these words have also only become a concept of something inexplicable, but if they were to make these words comprehensible down to the smallest detail, then they would no doubt suddenly no longer want to know anything more, for in the end they would then have to acknowledge a spiritual working after all and thus likewise pass over into an area which they today try to deny. It is extremely difficult to give or receive information if people do not have faith .... Only faith is able to fill the gaps which still remain open in purely intellectual thinking. Thus it will never be possible to teach humanity better where faith is completely excluded .... for then the key to truth is missing. And there is only one thing to do, to turn with complete trust to the right source which lets the ciearest and purest living water flow out .... and to close his ear to all hostilities in this world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unused earth life .... conscious work .... state in the hereafter ....

B.D. 0943 from June 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is of incomparable advantage for the soul if it is aware of its earthly task and now strives to the best of its ability to fulfil this task. If the human being imagines that the unused earthly time triggers the most bitter self-reproaches at the end of earthly life, this will have to be an incentive for it to work diligently on itself, for the human being creates his own state in the beyond. He will always have to bear the consequences for his way of life .... and can create an extremely beautiful life for himself in the beyond to the same extent as, on the other hand, an agonizing, unspeakably bleak state can be his fate, and this likewise through his own fault. And yet, the father in heaven only requires His earthly children to practice love .... All people should find love for each other and only live for each other, so that in this love they will also love God above all else and sing glory and praise to Him for all eternity .... For where love lives, there man will also connect intimately with God, and the earthly change will also be blessed through love, for these children are close to the father in heaven and their state of soul is light and clear. And if a person consciously strives to improve himself, if he consciously appeals for God's grace and consciously fulfils God's will constantly, the soul's state can easily be brought to maturity. For the human being has recognized his purpose on earth and will now never go through this earthly existence uselessly and irresponsibly. He has found the right path which leads to the height, to the eternal homeland ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Imperishable good .... prayer for the deceased .... power of love ....

B.D. 0944 from June 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

All earthly wealth is to be replaced, but what was neglected to be acquired is irretrievably lost for eternity. The lord has given the earthly children time and leisure to acquire these goods, since they are of inestimable value for the actual life in the beyond. The human being's will alone determines whether they are desired and acquired or not, and a person who only cares for life on earth does not pay attention to the grant of grace which could increase his heavenly wealth .... He is constantly only active for the sake of earthly advantage and will therefore one day stand empty in front of the gate to eternity. And this is of such grave importance. For even if his life on earth has passed in prosperity and without worries .... he cannot take anything of his earthly wealth with him but is now dependent on what is offered to him in love by other souls in extreme poverty. And now it will be decided and have an effect what good deeds he has accomplished on earth. He will reap the reward for these or have to live a desolate life in the beyond completely naked and empty. The soul will then be in extreme hardship if no help is offered to it anywhere, and everything unpleasant and difficult, which it knew how to avoid on earth, will now pursue it until it has recognized the error of its views of life on earth itself and now has the will to create a different life, a different state for itself. For again the soul's will alone is decisive, and it can also bring about a change of situation over there in the beyond. It is therefore infinitely valuable when the soul has left love ones behind on earth who remember it with love .... For love's strength is the only help, that can be offered to it, and therefore you should always make an effort to cultivate love .... Only it can bring salvation, and when a loving heart prays for a deceased from the bottom of ist heart it will send imperishable possessions to him in the beyond, and this signifies relief and help for the soul which is still struggling for knowledge. The body has certainly been taken into account on earth, but the soul has been thought of too little or not at all. But now the soul has to bear the consequences of the wrong life on earth, and often in the most bitter way .... But those who soon recognize their error are to be called fortunate, for although they still have to struggle unspeakably this will nevertheless be successful, for every soul will receive help if its striving for light is recognizable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Collision of Earth and Sun .... Researchers .... The Earth’s core ....

B.D. 0945 from June 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It will be scientifically proven that, as a result of the Earth’s advance towards the Sun, the continued existence of the Earth will be questionable after a certain time. And this evidence will remain unchallenged, because evidence to the contrary cannot be provided by anyone on earth who does not possess a clear knowledge about the course of all events through spiritual contact. However, a person who would like to convey this knowledge he receives through spiritual messages to the world will flatly be labelled abnormal, and although science will once again make a point of clarifying such symptoms, the human race will remain in the dark as long as it does not grant credence to such proclamations. On the one hand, the calculations of academics are not guaranteed, but on the other hand they do not take the time span into consideration, which they aspire to determine .... They do not avail themselves of the truth-revealing source of knowledge and since God, as the Creator of all things, has imposed limits which the human being cannot exceed without divine help, but which is consciously rejected, he can therefore never know the truth, since God will not arbitrarily revoke the order of His Creation. Nevertheless, despite this He will always and forever inform people of the further development and advancement of the works of creation, but precisely these proclamations are not regarded as truth, whereas the scientific reports and calculations are meant to be authoritative and will therefore also be acknowledged as irrefutable. And so scientists are totally convinced that nothing extraordinary can come upon the Earth before their calculated point in time has come .... indeed, as a result of this it is even believed that experiments can be conducted and that the Sun and its effect can be utilized on that basis, thereby reducing the Sun’s strength and alleviating the collision of the Earth with the Sun accordingly. All these purely earthly experiments and results are absurd, for they are more likely to confuse human thinking than lead to clear realisation. God’s creations repeatedly provide the evidence that no human being can ever contribute towards their emergence and that the human being was only granted the transformation of the Earth’s surface, everything else is brought about by God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence and the human being cannot contribute in the slightest to changing the law which has existed for all eternity. And thus this supposed disaster will never occur as people imagined, instead, the core of the Earth will suddenly and unexpectedly start to rotate and wreck all calculations by the scientists .... For this was not planned in the worldly researchers’ latest calculations and scientific results, nevertheless, it was determined in the wise plan of the eternal Deity from the very beginning.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purity of heart .... happiness of union .... weakness of faith ....

B.D. 0946 from June 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the purity of the heart the human being is able to feel the presence of the lord, for it is the first condition for specialization and thus the occurrence of the divine spirit of love. Man cannot yet grasp the difference between a being walking with or without the lord in it. For the former is still a foreign concept to him as long as he does not experience it in himself. Yet the union of the spirit of God with the divine spiritual spark in the human being is so extremely intoxicating and therefore also indescribable that everyone would strive to experience this happiness. But this cannot be achieved in any other way than through profound faith and a God-pleasing way of life which consists of utmost love towards his neighbour and is thus rooted in love for God. He who is pure of heart lives, so to speak, according to divine will and thus draws divinity itself to himself. However, purity of heart is also necessary in order to receive God as the purest, most honourable being in it .... clear and blameless must be the way of life of the one whom the divine saviour appreciates in His presence .... love must adorn the heart for the most splendid stay for the lord .... and His all-encompassing love will outshine everything, and unification will now be able to take place .... When the need approaches the human being and he threatens to become wavering, a barrier is always set again which prevents the divine saviour from entering the heart, for faith is weak .... and only a strong, rock-solid faith opens the door of the heart. The incomprehensible happiness would be unbearable with weak faith, it would make the human being completely unsuitable for earthly fulfilment of duty, but strong faith, on the other hand, would enable the human being to be extraordinarily active on earth, and thus it will be understandable to you that your weakness of faith is still an obstacle and that you have to struggle in prayer so that you will first master your doubts in order to be able to enjoy the great happiness while still on earth. A heart cleansed of all dross will, as it were, also banish all doubts and thus await the lord with complete faith, and through this profound faith it will consciously be able to bring about unification in the shortest time, but the doubter will still be denied the highest happiness on earth until he has convinced himself to have the strongest faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Hour of decision .... warning to remain faithful to the saviour ....

B.D. 0947 from June 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the time of harvest the hour has come for you humans when you have to decide whether you want to deny Jesus Christ or acknowledge him as the son of the most high .... and this question, which is addressed to your heart, will cause you many an anxious hour until you make your choice .... Listen to the voice of the heart then and listen to it, for then I seriously warn everyone not to allow themselves to be determined for the sake of external advantage .... I admonish the weak-willed that they should hold out and prove their loyalty to Me .... I am close to everyone with My love and let them feel this love, and I will also make an obvious appearance at a suitable point that the defaulting and lukewarm should pay attention and reflect on their responsibility towards the soul. And I still want to wrest the timid souls from the adversary, I want to give them strength that they recognize Me as their God and creator .... their saviour and redeemer .... and that they remain loyal to Me with full will. And so everyone will also feel the blessing who calls on Me in prayer, because I don’t close My ears to any voice which reaches Me in this adversity. Only the one who hands Me over without any misgivings will be without My grace, for he despises what I want to give him and is therefore completely in the enemy's clutches. Then the time is no longer far away which is conjured up by humanity's faithlessness .... The crowd of Mine will be a very small one, and that is why I have to call out with a loud voice to persuade the apostates to turn back. I will not leave one of the children of earth unwarned, I will not leave one of them to his fate .... and must therefore be strict where My love is not respected .... where My courtship is unsuccessful .... And that time will be bitter for all unbelievers. Because they have no protection and support. They are defencelessly at the mercy of the corrupter, and help can only come to them if they turn away from the world and take refuge in Me. If no-one can help them then they will grasp at straws in order to cling to them, and if they still call upon Me in such adversity I will hear their prayer and grant them My blessings in abundance so that they will grow stronger and turn ever more intimately to Me. This time is near and all signs already precede it which shall draw your attention to the fact that My word will be fulfilled in its time .... It shall spur you, who want to serve Me, to utmost activity so that support is granted to those who recognize .... they will not become weak in the time of need ....

Amen

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Necessity of natural disasters .... God's will turned into form ....

B.D. 0948 from June 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is of utmost importance to recognize how the creator's will is determinative for the entire work of creation. There is nothing in the world that could oppose this will, and all works of creation are the will of God that has become form. Thus no individual work of creation can arbitrarily separate itself and continue to exist according to other than divine law. As soon as God would like to withdraw His will from it, it would have ceased to exist; for only the will of God continuously animates everything that exists. It is this will, which has become form, that remains inviolable for all eternity. Even the destruction of any creations, but which, to put it better, only means an external change of form, is equally divine will, because without this will it would not be possible for any being to bring about the slightest change of form, let alone to destroy entire works of creation. Hence God's will must always be active here too, and since nothing in the lord's working can be arbitrary or haphazard but predetermined again in all wisdom for the best of the countless living beings, every disaster must also be taken into account and accepted as necessary for humanity. For countless beings need an apparent work of destruction in order to have the opportunity for higher development, and in a certain sense such processes are also beneficial for humanity, for only through them do many people find the right relationship with God and recognize the transitoriness of the body and earthly goods .... He recognizes that as a human being he is completely incapable of resisting these catastrophes and must therefore also acknowledge the will of a supreme being again .... And it will now be more understandable to him that the being on earth must always submit to divine will in order to remain as it were, in divine order .... This realization is decisive for the human being's earthly life. Only when he recognizes a higher power as such and endeavours to live according to its will is he able to comprehend divinity and the entire work of creation. For since the human being, as the only being, was left with the freedom of his will, he cannot indeed oppose divine will but he can oppose it by rejecting it, and it is this will of rejection which signifies the separation from the eternal deity, and the earth being's distance from God can only be reduced when its will completely subordinates itself to divine will. However, if the human being does not even want to acknowledge a higher will of a deity which directs and determines him and the whole of creation, events must of necessity provide him with the evidence, and thus natural disasters are a certain necessity again for the spiritual well-being of the whole of humanity, if only it derives the benefit from them and recognizes the rule and activity of the eternal deity in all events and now consciously establishes the right relationship with the creator ....

Amen

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Need for natural disasters .... fighter of God

B.D. 0949 from June 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

My dear child, the time has come when you shall work for Me on earth. An immense event is about to take place and there is no possibility whatsoever for the earthly human being to escape this event or to leave it unnoticed. Even the most obdurate and faithless person will be greatly shaken in his previous opinion, for he will experience unprecedented things .... And the cry of despair of people in the midst of this experience will reach all ears .... They will pray for salvation but I cannot hear their prayer, yet thousands upon thousands shall visibly recognize My reign and turn to faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer of humanity. And so I want My faithful to unite in silence, to stand like a wall in the midst of the apostate world and stand up for My name in order to point to My greater than great love and mercy .... I therefore also choose My fighters Myself, and I want them to stand by Me in all loyalty and devotion. A completely new law shall determine people to exclude Me from their life of feeling .... What a foolish beginning .... Where mankind wants to destroy My fighters or render them harmless, there I Myself stand and fill the gaps, and I consequently separate everything useless in such difficult times, I also leave none of My fighters without protection .... But how I come, you shall not be told, but I come unexpectedly and in every disguise .... Whoever has Me in him will recognize Me, and I will also make Myself known to him. And so I want to think about you with all My strength and give you the following to think about: (interruption)

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Prediction of world-shaking event .... mission of the servants of God ....

B.D. 0950 from June 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The mission from heaven concerns a mission which is closely connected with your earthly task and which, in order to be executable, is to be presented to you. Behold, it concerns the awakening of innumerable souls from spiritual night. If salvation is to be brought to all of them, faith must first arise in them or the existing weak faith must be strengthened. And this in itself is in every respect a task which can only be accomplished with utmost energy, for in the foreseeable future it is precisely faith which will be completely defeated, since worldliness is increasingly gaining the upper hand. Thus extremely willing fighters for My word are needed who will only ever fulfil what is proclaimed to them as My will from above. In a very short time I want to shake people's souls out of their sleep .... I want give them reason to think about to be or not to be, about the earth, life and its transience. And then it will be necessary to inform them of the divine word, to nourish their spirit and thus to refresh and comfort them through the source of all knowledge, for their state will then be a sorrowful one and they will need feasting and refreshment. This event will still be preceded by signs which will be noticeable all over the world, and a search will already begin where there is still a weak faith. And during this time the path you have to take will be clearly shown to you, My servants on earth, and then I will demand all your commitment that you demonstrate love for Me and don't oppose My will .... I want to make you easily and clearly hear My call, I want to give you instructions and I want to steel your courage so that you will not be timid in your ministry. The recent events on the high seas are already the prelude to what has been destined since eternity ....

Remember the poor in prayer, and observe to what extent such events will now repeat themselves, no matter what kind. For if, on the one hand, the eternal deity is thought of less and less, on the other hand such events must increase which are intended to remove people's spiritual delusion and shake their rigid mind. For humanity does not yet grasp the seriousness of the situation and must therefore obviously be made aware of the passing away of the body and of earthly life. And when this hour has come, remember My words and be ready to work for Me. You will never stand alone, spiritual strength will always support you where it is necessary to support Me and My word, you will always feel this strength and will not lack courage. You will always be guided to where you should confess Me, you will follow the voice of your heart if you remain in love for Me, and this voice will always and everywhere be your guide, for if you want to be active in My will then everything you undertake, speak and think will also carry My will within it, for it is then I Myself who work in and through you .... And you will be blessed with great strength in order to be able to confirm your words, and anyone who uses this strength in My name will be a blessing to humanity and many will rediscover faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God ....

Amen

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Life is a struggle .... father words .... doubt ....

B.D. 0951 from June 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In order to constantly find the connection with the divine lord and saviour, it is enough to become absorbed in calling upon His name, and every other thought will disappear from the heart. To walk the path to eternal life certainly requires self-conquest and therefore also great love for the lord .... (7.6.1939) Life is a struggle and those who are strong will emerge victorious from this struggle. However, no one can do this on his own, he must constantly beg God’s help .... he must constantly long for grace from above, but then he will be able to resist all temptations and be strong and invincible .... The spiritual wall you erect for yourselves through too weak faith is a difficult obstacle to overcome .... Every doubt piles up anew, and the light finds it difficult to penetrate through this self-made wall. The stones must be tirelessly removed so that the obstacle will be removed, and this only happens through heartfelt prayer to the heavenly father .... Because prayer proves faith and must now be opposed to doubt or weak faith, only in this way can man strengthen himself in such a way that it is easy for him to remove the obstacle. Only the will must not weaken and the connection with the father must remain established, and thus the father sends His word to you today to strengthen your faith:

Blessed are those who long for Me .... The hour will come when My nearness will bring them clarity. Hearing the living word silences all doubts, and in the night of unbelief a star always shines which points to the light. Therefore grasp what I say to you: I desire you, for you were Mine from eternity .... I send you My messengers to fetch you home into the father’s house, and I give you food and drink so that the path will not be too burdensome for you .... And My love is your constant companion .... Therefore walk steadfastly on the path that leads towards Me. I await you and stand by you in all hardships, but you must never look back or become fickle. Only ever look forward, towards the light, and if your soul is blinded and the path seems dark to you, then only stretch out your hands longingly so that I may take hold of them and guide you through the darkness again onto the sunny path which only ever leads to Me. Behold, I stand at the end of the path .... covered it of your own accord, so that you are close to Me, then you have overcome .... But the clouds which still shadow your path from time to time you form for yourself, you do not see Me behind those clouds, which are only the doubting thoughts in your heart. Chase them away, for they must obey your will .... and radiant brightness will shine for you again and lead you towards Me. And remember My everlasting care for My children .... I leave none in need of soul and yet know about their worries at all times. Therefore do not be afraid and seek Me, and I will let Myself be found by you ....

Amen

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Different living conditions no obstacle to the development of the soul ....

B.D. 0952 from June 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

People's ways of life are so diverse and yet can lead to the same result, and thus it is erroneous to assume that the soul's life can only develop in certain circumstances, whereas it must remain completely uninfluenced where the human being's situation in life is less beneficial to the soul. This view is extremely erroneous, after all, all people must have the same opportunity to reach the state of perfection, and the eternal deity can never want to favour or degrade a being, for this would never be compatible with divine love and justice. People's living conditions may seem to be favourable or unfavourable, and this gives rise to wrong conclusions, but the individual person's lot is always assigned to him in such a way that it can contribute to his higher development to the highest degree, if only he makes extensive use of it himself, and this alone is decisive. The human being is certainly often forced by extraordinary circumstances to move in a certain direction of thought, i.e. he will have to solve tasks in the worldly sphere which fill him mentally, so that he will occupy himself little or not at all with spiritual problems, yet no human being on earth is exclusively only earthly active .... There is still time for one to deal with oneself and give heed to spiritual questions, if only the will is there. And the job, the situation in life, time or place of his earthly existence is never in any way a hinderance to shaping his inner life according to divine will .... The human being's will is always the sole factor to be taken into account .... The will overcomes all external circumstances that threaten to hinder the soul's life. And again, it is the desire for the world which can be considered the greatest obstacle to the soul's higher development .... And this desire can be nourished in seemingly good as well as in bad life situations, but it can also be fought. All resistances exist in order to be overcome, and it is therefore irrelevant whether the human being has to fight a hard battle in life due to poor circumstances and in return has fewer worldly temptations or whether he has to fight out even harder battle against the world in a life of well-being .... the inner life is always and in every situation completely separate from the life of the body. Thoughts are conveyed to the human being in so many ways by the spiritual beings who look after him that it is only a matter of grasping and utilizing them. And this is never dependent on the human being's situation in life and his destiny .... because according to the wise plan of the creator, this is assigned to every human being in such a way that it guarantees the highest possible perfection and thus earthly life need only be used correctly, i.e. according to divine will, in order to lead to complete success. Thus the objection that a profession or fate makes it easier to find the way to realization is totally wrong .... Only the will alone is decisive that the human being pays attention to his inner life and is therefore active of his own accord for the salvation of his soul ....

Amen

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Freedom of the spirit .... dream .... spiritual realm .... matter ....

B.D. 0953 from June 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The spirit of man is familiar as such in all creation and can therefore run unhindered through the universe, no space and no time is set as a limit for it, it is able to take up residence everywhere at any time and can therefore also remove itself from its outer shell in a dream, since it does not require a period of time to return to the body. The spirit is out of God and therefore present everywhere at the same time, and therefore the human being can certainly be bound to time and space, however, the spirit in him is free .... that all knowledge can be imparted to the human being through this spirit, it is only up to his will to hear. And the human being cannot believe himself in amazement at a process which lies entirely in the essence of the matter. The earthly shell is only a temporary, foreign realm .... but the spirit is eternally at home in the kingdom of the spiritual. Therefore, even during the time on earth, since there is no limit to its movement, it has to stay there mostly .... and it must also be its aim to describe the actual homeland to the human being, who is its cover on earth, as thoroughly as possible .... The slightest will of the human being is enough for the spirit to push itself forward, for the flight up into spiritual spheres is most welcome to it if only once it was able to break through the human being's spiritual darkness and this very will has released .... However, if the spirit is still completely in bondage, if it is enclosed in the human shell and must remain there until the human being, i.e., whose will itself has become active, it will understandably always keep his thoughts on earth, he will never attempt the ascent upwards with his thoughts and consequently cannot have any other knowledge apart from his earthly worldly wisdom. The purpose of life on earth is and remains the awakening of the divine spirit within himself, the liberation of it from the bonds of darkness, which is therefore matter .... for only the human being who begins to overcome matter simultaneously loosens the fetters of the spirit. And only then can the spirit accomplish the unimagined .... For only now can it unfold, the spiritual kingdom is open to it, and now it can also let the human being gain insight into it .... It can, so to speak, bring the spiritual kingdom close to the human being, increase the longing for it, so that the human being's will only applies to the attainment of spiritual glory .... What is revealed to man in dreams is often a pictorial representation of spiritual life; and also in cases where warnings are to be sent to people, they are direct indications of something happening. But the spirit will always want to express itself to the human being, it will always want to transfer something from the spiritual kingdom into the human being's consciousness in order to influence his thoughts to turn more towards the spiritual. It is so extremely important to cherish precisely such thoughts and to pay attention to them, yet the human being in his sober thinking is all too happy to reject all such thoughts which could cause him to digress from his earthly activity .... He prefers to pursue what is unimportant and ignores the most important things in life and accordingly chokes on the spiritual spark dormant in him until he recognizes matter as completely worthless and strives upwards of his own will .... i.e. until the spirit in him is then given freedom to rise into the realm of the spiritual at any time .... Then he will be able to draw again and again, because spiritual truth can reach him unlimitedly through the spirit of God that has become active within himself ....

Amen

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"Watch and pray ...." temptations ....

B.D. 0954 from June 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation .... You should always remember these words because you are in constant danger that your soul will be damaged through spiritual lukewarmness .... Always being alert protects you from sudden attacks by the adversary, he will always find you prepared for battle if you pray, and it will not be easy for him to attack you. For all evil in the world comes from him .... He seeks to sow the evil seeds into the hearts of men, he puts all desire into them, and where man is not careful and forgets to pray, there the adversary will find good ground, i.e. attention will only be paid too readily to what stimulates human senses .... and so such people will always succumb to the temptations because they lack the strength to defend themselves against the attacks of the enemy. And yet such great assistance is available to you, you may only want it and the lord assures you of His help .... Watch and pray .... Recognize with a clear spirit how you can escape all temptations if you turn your heart towards the divine saviour and call upon Him for help. Just don't rely on the earthly help offered to you, don't try to find a substitute for the pure divine teaching there. And pray there again so that the lord will bless you and your work on earth, but also consider how valuable it is to be spiritually awake and how every day should therefore be used to increase spiritual wealth .... consider that precisely people's indifference has brought about such immense misery .... and the adversary has an easy game if he is not seriously resisted. And therefore his greatest endeavour is to put people in a state of fatigue .... if the human being’s will now gives way, then very soon everything divine in the human being will no longer be able to assert himself, and the end will be his complete apostasy from God and a constant decline in spiritual knowledge. And thus always follow our advice not to put yourself in such danger under any circumstances, whereas you have the best means in your hand to come closer to the father in heaven by only ever again commending yourself to the father in heaven in heartfelt prayer and gladly and joyfully submitting to His will. Then you will very soon master the danger that lies in wait for you and through prayer you will also be fully strengthened in the fight against the power that is hostile to God. A person can very well avoid all hostilities if only he recognizes them as such .... The more alert you are to all events around you, the sooner you will be able to avoid them and the temptations will not approach you like this .... Therefore watch and pray .... And the lord will reward your zeal and not let you be harmed in body and soul ....

Amen

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"Become like children ...." the right relationship with the father ....

B.D. 0955 from June 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

"Become like children," says the lord, "so that you may be of the same mind with your father-spirit and give Him the love and honour due to Him." Thus John first heard the voice within himself, because in childlike love for the lord he prayed thus: "You, My great love .... my heart rejoices when I am near You, and it follows You wherever You go .... This is true life, I feel it and give Myself entirely to You .... I want to be Your child always and forever, for My heart desires You with all My senses, with all My strength ...." And so you too should pray to the divine lord and saviour; you shall offer your heart to Him childlike and humbly .... you should love Him warmly and dearly and express this love by walking according to His will in love for Him and your neighbour .... You are to change yourselves completely to love and therefore become one with Him, Who is eternal love Himself. From eternity the father only has His children's well-being in mind, and if you recognize this you must love Him and become true children of your father. And if you are like a child, you are also fully faithful, fully trusting and only take refuge with your concerns and every worry to Him Who, as your father, takes you to His heart in all love and delivers you from suffering and worries. Your prayer should be childlike and humble .... not fearful and doubtful, but in prayer alone you should express your relationship with the father .... Everything the father has He wants to give to His children, thus the child may also ask for it and faithfully hope for the fulfilment of its requests, and the more intimate the childlike relationship is established, the more lovingly the father takes care of His child .... He carefully leads it by the hand so that it will not fall or bump into a stone .... He guards it from the dangers of the world and does not let it go offside or stray. Because it comes to the father in the deepest faith and will therefore also be thought of with His love for all eternity ....

The beings in the beyond endeavour to inform you of everything that is worth knowing for you, and they want to let you know in as comprehensible a way as possible what you need to know in order to be able to work successfully on earth. It is extraordinarily advantageous for you if you repeatedly live through what you have received in spirit, if you can often read and ponder the scriptures .... the only possibility to impart new knowledge to you, for first your head and heart must be filled with what is offered to you, only then can the knowledge of things be made accessible to you which are otherwise hidden from you humans. And thus you shall also receive another announcement today which touches the relationship with the heavenly father. Everything that seems difficult or unbearable to you on earth, trustingly place it on the heart .... His child must not want to go any path alone on earth, it must not believe that it could overcome the inconveniences of life allone .... and it must not become hesitant about the success of his earthly or spiritual work. It must always take the path to the father and know that it will always find help there at any time. And the father in heaven wants it to always ask for His help in all things, for this alone characterizes the child's right relationship with the father. All fear and doubt must be banished from the heart because the father has promised His children His help .... "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I want to refresh you ...." Does not all comfort and all assurance of divine help lie in these words? .... And yet the earthly child wants to be weak in faith and not entrust its suffering and worries to the lord. And therefore it has to be pointed out so often until fullest faith makes the still existing wall of separation between the father and His child waver .... The path to the father is free for every earthly child if it does not block this path itself through its own guilt. The intimacy of prayer is the strongest of all means of grace .... for through it the child achieves everything with the father ....

Amen

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Extraordinary proof of grace .... arrogance of the researchers ....

B.D. 0956 from June 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Wonderful, but the ways of the lord are often incomprehensible for you people .... And so hear His comforting words today: You all still don’t understand the meaning of His extraordinary proof of grace. When the lord speaks to you, it is not only for the purpose of instructing an individual, but this individual is only the recipient of what is addressed to the whole of humanity. The world rejects divine intervention in earthly events, and it must now obviously be proven to it that a power is at work here which was previously inexplicable or unknown to it. And this work always remains such proof for every outsider who allows himself to be examined. God's love now goes so far as to make people suspicious who, in their self-assurance, claim that the research of science alone is authoritative and that through it a dissolution or destruction of everything connected with the earth has been perfectly established. Precisely such researches confuse the human mind more than is beneficial to it, and thus arises the necessity of first making this group of scholars harmless. And thus it is now also understandable that both spiritual friends as well as the spiritually striving human being will only have to fight ever more against the arrogance .... All of these must be transformed right into the deepest innermost part, and for this purpose the human being will first have to completely shut himself off from the external world, because only then will he be able to understand the rule and activity of the eternal deity. But those who are not so attached to the world on the one hand, but on the other hand value their earthly knowledge too highly, the father in heaven wants to bring their erroneous view to their attention, and this can only happen through the obvious presentation of world events, the occurrence of which the world is no longer able to believe in .... (interruption).

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Eruptions .... Work of Creation .... Researchers ....

B.D. 0957 from June 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Hence it is impossible to avert an event which was predetermined from the start and once again only for the purpose of returning countless fallen souls. The innermost structure of the Earth is constantly influenced by the activity of spiritual forces, and so an eruption will occur when it is permitted by the divine Creator, and this permission, in turn, depends on people’s own will .... If humanity’s state of soul is in grave danger due its own fault, a disaster is intended precisely in order to save it; hence people’s will is ultimately the cause of the total destruction or of rescuing the soul from profound adversity. However, that which God decided in His profound wisdom from the very start has been concealed from the world but was proclaimed to those who live in Him and according to His order, as the Lord has always chosen those who, time and again, were supposed to proclaim His will to people. Nevertheless, this knowledge cannot be verified and is therefore rarely accepted as truth. But now worldly researchers also insist on entering a region which is inaccessible to them. They believe themselves capable of ascertaining the divine Creator’s plan, i.e., by way of all sorts of calculations they try to determine the effects of natural laws; they even insist that they can numerically determine the date of the alleged end of the world and thereby effectively intend to subject the divine will to their calculations .... The human being is so small compared to the work of Creation and yet deems himself to know so much about things which are completely out of his reach as long as he does not try to attain them by spiritual means .... . He fails to recognise the only right path but, on the other hand, is very quickly willing to believe what is scientifically presented to him. The greatest intellect truly does not suffice to ascertain the truth, yet the profound faith of an uneducated person can penetrate the mysteries of Creation and reveal irrefutable knowledge. Therefore, you should always pay attention to what worldly researchers present to people as far as these investigations touch upon God’s work of Creation, for this region is inaccessible to them as long as they don’t endeavour to gain an insight by spiritual means .... For God Himself offers the eternal truth to His children on earth now and at all times.

Amen

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Light state .... creation work .... creation ....

B.D. 0958 from June 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

God's creation is infinite .... And it testifies to His omnipotence, His wisdom and His will to love. The closer the being is to the eternal deity, the more audibly the creator's greatness and majesty is expressed to its senses. But to be united with God in the state of maturity as a being of light means at the same time the comprehension of all miracles of creation, it means an uninterrupted experiencing and enlivening of the whole of creation and thus the most blissful state of being completely acting in the same will of the supreme being of God and partaking of all delights of eternity. This state is incomprehensible for the human being on earth, and again it is of utmost importance to strive for this state because the earthly time was granted to the eternal being as a trial period so that it can put itself into a state of maturity and be spared an incredible struggle in the beyond. For once it has attained realization in the beyond, its only aim is to reach .... However, in earthly life its full will is enough to reach it, which requires extreme struggle in the beyond. The being's state of light is the fulfilment of all longing, it is the epitome of all love. God's work of creation is sublime and based on His greater than great love .... And it would be called presumptuous to want to deny a creator of all this. However, the creator can only be recognized by the human being if He is imagined in all sublimity, for a being which is imaginable to the human being and easy to comprehend would truly be even less conceivable as creator of the entire universe. He Who let such come into being by virtue of His omnipotence, wisdom and love, as long as He is not in the state of light, must remain inconceivable to the human being and above everything and can therefore only be spiritually grasped and acknowledged in blind faith, yet the credibility is visibly proven to the human being through miracles of creation of the most diverse kind, and it is far greater folly to reject a creator of eternity than to blindly acknowledge Him when the human being looks with open eyes and heart at everything that lives around him and constantly informs him of God's love, omnipotence and wisdom ....

Amen

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Controversy for the sake of the name of Jesus .... flight from God .... earthly power ....

B.D. 0959 from June 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It concerns a little that a spirit arises on earth and you shall be subject to it .... yet this spirit is not sent by God, for it will fight against everything that is of God .... he will fight against the divine teaching, he will also destroy what divinity tried to bring to people until now. Furthermore, he will plunge those who remain faithful to the old teaching into adversity and tribulation, and he will unfold an extraordinary power and cunning to destroy what does not adhere to him. And this is announced to you so that you know when the time has come, because when the adversary will unfold his power, the army of God's fighters is also well equipped, and the lord himself will lead them into battle, and now a battle will be fought through the fiery sword of the mouth for the name of Jesus, and this is the beginning of the spiritual kingdom on earth. Countless fighters will fall for the glory of God, but no one will be able to kill their soul, and every soul that willingly gives up its body for Jesus Christ as the son of God and divine redeemer saves other souls from eternal death. The lord will not take any of these fighters to Himself from earth until he has fulfilled his mission, but then eternal glory is assured to him. Anyone who faithfully offers himself to the lord for service at this time will have unspeakable strength, he will not need to be afraid of worldly power, for this is unable to do anything against the power of God, which is also inherent in God's fighter who completely submits himself to the lord's will. Anyone who fearlessly confronts earthly power by calling upon the divine lord and saviour will remain untouched and no enemy will be able to harm him, for he has the lord Himself at his side as commander and protector. Again and again mankind is admonished not to betray the divine lord when the hour of decision has come. Many will indeed abandon their faith for the sake of earthly advantage, they will be defectors into the enemy camp, the lord will not be able to forcibly bring them back, and they will have to bear the consequences of their flight from God themselves .... but whoever is not frightened by the earthly fate which his loyalty to the lord earns him, his reward in eternity will be incomparably blissful. He will patiently accept his fate on earth for the lord and for the glorification of His name and in return be worthy of the proximity of his saviour in eternity. But those who betray the lord banish themselves forever from the presence of the lord, and their lot will be weeping and gnashing of teeth ....

Amen

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Spiritual sun .... heavenly gardeners .... word of God ....

B.D. 0960 from June 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The sun of the spirit has risen, and its rays kindle in the heart the right love for God. And wisdom shines and illuminates the dawning morning .... And what slumbers there is awakened by the light shine. All life unfolds, and the will to activity becomes active. And what was dead revives .... and awakens to life in the sun's warming rays. And all this is brought about by the word of God, which, like the radiant sun, gives life and strength to the soul and can have a tremendous fruitful effect on the human heart. But this also requires a gardener who, in wise knowledge, exposes his plants to the rays of the sun in such a way that they can flourish and develop. And the lord works in the same way .... He protects the tender plants from the scorching embers .... He does not let starving child on earth take an immediate look into the spiritual kingdom, which could harm him. And yet He does not let it starve and does not deprive it of the beneficial effects of the sun’s rays .... He constantly gives the child on earth spiritual nourishment and thus ensures his prosperity and further development. A little plant that has to starve for light and warmth or rain and dew will wither and soon wither faintly .... Likewise, without nourishment from above, without the divine word, an earthly child cannot develop to its fullest bloom, it constantly needs the influx of spiritual strength, it needs the light of divine wisdom and the warmth of divine love and can only flourish if it receives this uninterruptedly. And the heavenly gardener tends His plants with heavenly love and patience. He lets the most wondrous creations arise in the universe and everything is subject to His will. And everything is enlivened by spiritual power. Thus God's garden is entrusted to His creative will and is carefully tended and cared for. And the lord lets His sun shine on every little plant, and every little plant strives for the light .... Only the human being, as a creature of God standing in free will, sometimes eludes the beneficial effect of the light, the spiritual sun. As the most precious plant in God's garden, it is given special love from its creator .... it is offered all the nourishment that is to promote its prosperity. But how often is the light of the spirit and the warmth of love not received .... The little plant eludes the beneficient effect of the spiritual sun of its own accord and starves and perishes completely, where it was offered this in all fullness and all strength. The sun with its light and warmth is indispensable for the flourishing of everything that lives on earth, and likewise the word of God as the spiritual sun is the first condition for life one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Temporary desire influence of evil power ....

B.D. 0961 from June 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

When the thoughts rise upwards, the heart is willing and consciously seeks the connection with the lord. And His grace and love comes to meet it, and the soul's hardship is alleviated. The earthly child will be forgiven for any lack of love if it repentantly recognizes it and suffers from it itself. But it will also have to make an effort to make up for what it has missed with double zeal, and this will require all its will. But the soul now recognizes the true purpose of life and finds no real peace if it once followed it less. And a complete separation from the eternal deity is no longer possible for it, even if matter still temporarily has an overpowering effect on the human being so that he cannot refrain from desire .... This is only temporary, because it no longer completely satisfies the earth child, but this desire is only the effect of evil forces, it is the adversary’s attempt to turn away .... But the divine lord and savior does not let anyone who longs for Him fall so easily, and the enjoyment of the world will only too soon be a state, empty pleasure for those whose heart already belongs to Him .... The life of the individual takes its toll, as it were, and the human being will only become master of his desires by using all his will .... But one day he will also feel grateful that his father’s love has often disturbed his complete enjoyment, because this is only for the soul’s blessing And thus everything earthly will lose value, and temptations will become increasingly weaker and approach the earthly child less frequently, for the lord promises His help and His strength to all who ask Him for it from the bottom of their heart and prove their love to Him by letting their will become active in order to resist all temptations ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mental activity .... Heart .... Brain ....

B.D. 0962 from June 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Unite in faith and pay attention to My Words, for the spirit in you will noticeably express My will. And if you live up to My will your life will irrevocably lead to the goal. The thought is spiritual strength, it propagates and is therefore the best evidence that it is not something dead, that it lives and invigorates and is in constant contact with the person's mental activity. Regular nourishment through spiritual strength is essentially the human being's mental activity. The human being is capable of receiving this flow of strength and effectively diverting it to the heart which, as a receiving station for spiritual strength, makes constant use of the nourishment and, thus utilised, returns it to the brain-centre where it, in a manner of speaking, activates the human being's mechanism .... This process is still entirely incomprehensible to the human being, since up to now he is advocating the mistaken opinion that only the brain carries out its organic activity and that the rest of the body is not involved at first until the will moves into action and then the body implements the mental activity .... but that, in fact, the heart is the receiving station and that an elimination first happens there as to how far the human being is willing to accept the spiritual strength, that is, the transfer of thoughts .... and this happens in a way that the body, and with it the brain as an organ, consents to either keep the received spiritual transfer as spiritual knowledge or merely senses it as a vague notion and instantly dismisses it again.

For this reason it happens so often that opposition makes itself felt when a particularly insightful and willingly receptive soul also wants to impart the information received in the heart to the brain .... The latter refuses to accept it completely, sends it back to the human heart, where it is received again with sadness, sent repeatedly up until the brain's opposition wearies and subsequently acts as it should, since it is now determined by the strength of the spirit .... which grows increasingly stronger the more the brain's opposition wanes. Mental activity can only be fully explained in this way .... and provides the answer to the question why the same wisdom, which people are made aware of in the same manner, will be completely differently received, i.e. believed. In fact, it is simply due to a person's will to what extent he accepts and utilises the spiritual information received by the heart .... whether he therefore effectively offers resistance through the mere activity of the organs, which only utilise the spiritual strength so far as they need for their essential activity, thus for purely earthly thinking .... However, in order to solve spiritual problems the cooperation of the heart with the thinking organs is indispensable, because everything spiritual first takes the path to the heart until it is passed on, and then it will also have to be fully accepted by the organs, which are responsible for mental activity. And, once again, a heart living in love, will be incredibly richly endowed with spiritual strength and therefore the person, who shelters love within himself, will increase his spiritual knowledge and he will live in brightest realisation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The prophets' predictions .... The return of Christ ....

B.D. 0963 from June 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In the Lord's return to Earth the predictions of all prophets will come true. For it is written that humanity does not pay attention to His will .... but it is also written that a number of people will serve Him and that the Lord will come to these people and give them strength in times of adversity. That He will give the bread of heaven to His Own and take supper with those who love Him and keep His commandments. And that they will hear His voice, that He will therefore be with them during their life on earth and live in the midst of His Own on earth. People do not want to take these predictions literally and try to undermine the Words of the Lord. They themselves have changed the arrangement as well as the meaning of the Words and thus no longer grant full credence to these rearranged Words. And so you humans deem Him far away even though He is very close to you .... You no longer hear His voice and all your thoughts and feelings have turned away from the divine and consequently attach no value to the prophecies. Behold, if you yourselves are unaware of the fact that the Lord pleases you with His presence .... if you can't believe that He so loves you and in this love takes the path to humanity again, then you will barely be able to grasp the infinite happiness of His return to earth either. You will only ever see the earthly life but pay no attention to spiritual currents which clearly reveal to you that the Lord is present among His Own. In a manner of speaking, He takes part in every event and His presence can easily be felt by those earthly children who, through their works of love, already carry Him in their hearts, for the prophesies' meaning will suddenly become clear to them and they will realise how the Scriptures will come true, Word for Word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Last judgement .... divine justice ....

B.D. 0964 from June 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

You must think of the last judgment and try to imagine that God will judge you in all justice and repay you for your actions and thoughts on earth. Divine justice cannot absolve you, even if it is capable of infinite love, if you only bear the slightest guilt; every, even the smallest guilt must be followed by atonement wherever divine justice is to pronounce its judgement. And thus the day of judgment will also be a day of unspeakable remorse and bitterest suffering and dreadfully agonizing for all those who did not make use of their stay on earth in accordance with divine command, for they will never be able to escape the judgement. Anyone who tries to escape responsibility on earth will be inexorably called to account, and there will be no possibility left for him to cover up his deficient state, for all actions and omissions will be openly and clearly recorded in the book of life and thus will also have to be answered for. And divine justice cannot be lenient where every guilt of sin demands just punishment. And all bad and all good deeds will be weighed against each other, and the scales of the court will tilt to the side of the preponderance, and therefore the sentence will be passed in all justice, and good for him whose bad deeds do not have the preponderance .... good for him whose verdict does not mean: weighed and found wanting .... Those who commit themselves to God the lord on earth will have nothing to fear on judgment day, their every step on earth was pleasing to God, they always recognized the father in Him and therefore no longer need to fear the hour of judgment, for in the awareness of a correctly accomplished life there is no room for fear in the heart, and such an earthly child approaches the day of judgment without fear. On the other hand, it is unspeakably sad to see dear, close people having to answer for themselves and not being able to avert their fate for the time being, for divine justice demands of every human being that he takes upon himself his punishment and fate in the beyond, and this cannot be handed over to another spiritual being at will, since this does not correspond to the sense of justice and thus cannot ever be approved by the divine lord that a being should escape its deserved punishment and that a pure being would then have to go through the state of suffering instead of it. Thus the day of judgment will trigger happiness and bliss as well as the most bitter disgrace and suffering, yet eternal justice will not allow any being to suffer undeservedly or to be undeservedly happy .... The way of life on earth alone is always decisive as to whether the fate of the judged is bearable or unbearable, and everyone will seriously endeavour to make use of life in such a way that works of love and fulfilment of the commandments will have a particularly strong impact and thus the righteous judgment will not result in horror and despair. For the heavenly father is a just judge, and every good deed, but also every omission, will find its rightful retribution in the hereafter ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Demons .... temptations .... love to matter ....

B.D. 0965 from June 15th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The demons lie in wait for every weak moment and seize the weak-willed soul to bring it down. The human being's struggle is in vain until he commends himself to the father in heaven, and blessed is he who takes refuge in Him in such distress, for he truly needs divine help. The hostile power has unbelievable power over a weak human heart and often uses such means which require fierce resistance, which the human being in his weakness cannot muster on his own. Yet divine love is always ready for the earthly child if only you think of it .... The soul constantly seeks to defeat itself, yet earthly possessions tempt it with all their might and the adversary tempts the earthly child in every conceivable way, and yet the inclination towards matter is to be completely overcome .... all desire for it is to be discarded and only spiritual possession is to be striven for instead, and yet again and again the human being falls into the enemy's hands if even the slightest love of possession makes him strive for it, for then his power is all the greater the more the human being allows himself to become a slave to his earthly possessions. And once he has recognized the weakness that causes man to fall, he will not cease with temptations of this kind. And again we want to call out to you: Watch and pray so that you don't fall into temptation .... Because the enemy tries to bring about the apostasy from God with cunning and he always uses the weakest moments in man’s life for this purpose and then has the strongest influence on the soul, which certainly recognizes the temptation as such in itself and yet a certain timidity drives it to comply with the desire of the enemy's power and thus still clings to matter again instead of declaring war on it. And thus the slightest cause can lead to spiritual decline, and a pure heart can be defiled if God's help is not claimed, but an earthly child desiring God's help and thus living in light and grace will successfully face every challenge, for its request for deliverance from the adversary's power will soon be granted and matter will appear ever more distant to it, and the inclination towards it will be completely overcome ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Worldly activity .... spiritual striving and strength for it ....

B.D. 0966 from June 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

People's obligations in this world require strenuous activity and it will be in everyone's interest to devote themselves to this as exclusively as possible. And every distraction, which spiritual striving sometimes brings with it, is regarded as a hindrance to earthly activity and accordingly disliked by those who are outside the spiritual direction or those who see the first fulfilment of life in earthly activity. And now these people also demand from their fellow human beings complete absorption in earthly work, and they do not consider how unimportant and worthless the latter is if spiritual activity is not practiced at the same time and thus the earthly task is not properly solved. Both together will always be a blessing, and the lord will always give the person asking for it the necessary strength to do justice to his earthly activity if only he first thinks of the spiritual task and does justice to it, for the lord has set the perfection of the soul as the actual condition for earthly existence. He only granted the human being the grace of embodiment for this purpose, and thus this should also be fulfilled first, and then every guarantee is given for the fulfilment of earthly activity. Admittedly, the soul which has found the right path will now unwillingly want to take the path of matter, earthly work will seem useless to it and a certain unwillingness will become noticeable in the one who eagerly pursues spiritual striving, but then only heartfelt, fully trusting prayer will be necessary and this evil will soon be overcome. The soul will comply with the demands placed upon it and willingly fulfil its earthly task, yet giving its only love to the eternal deity, and with this in mind it will continue its earthly path from then on, yet to the benefit of all who are within the sphere of its activity of love. And times of complete submission to the will of God now follow .... And this is of such unspeakable value, for the person who follows the path of such an earth child with open eyes recognizes the lord's gracious guidance. The spiritual work will have a far more beneficial effect, and the lord also gives His blessing in an earthly relationship where the true earthly task is thought of first. Therefore, don't become of little faith if you believe your earthly activity is endangered .... The father in heaven guides everyone's destiny with a loving hand, and spiritual strength is available to everyone in abundance if only he desires to use this strength and it is now also accessible to him without restriction. And He looks favourably upon His children who are only willing to serve Him .... He will bless them in this life as well as in the beyond and protect them from physical and spiritual decline ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Concern of the spiritual friends .... efforts of the dark forces ....

B.D. 0967 from June 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Behold, My child, the soul will not find the right rest as long as it is unable to completely separate itself from the realm of earthly thoughts. And again and again the human being is held back from his spiritual flight upwards until he surrenders himself to Me without reservation. And therefore all resistance shall be broken, the world shall not be respected and only ever the desire for Me shall determine the human being to detach himself from earth. And thus hear few but salutary words which shall always support you if the separation from the world is difficult for you. An unparalleled battle is being waged for you .... The opposing powers seek to hold you to the earth by all means and to prevent you from continuing this work in every conceivable way. And likewise your spiritual friends are struggling for your soul, for your full will .... and their endeavour is so assiduous and persevering .... Now you yourself shall bring success to their endeavour by yielding to every, even the subtlest, impulse in you which is to the advantage of this work. Behold, with every new manifestation you fulfil the hopes of these friends in the beyond .... When using the power of the enemy, there is every danger that you will lose yourself and become careless or tired of work and unwilling to receive. Your friends' constant worry is therefore justified, and I will once again urge you to hand yourselves over to Me and spare no effort or inconvenience when it comes to receiving the spiritual impartations. Behold, I give to you without limit and My love is always close to you, yet you must look for Me yourselves and always let your will become active, and I will bless you and provide you with My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus' suffering on the cross .... earthly body ....

B.D. 0968 from June 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The suffering of Jesus on the cross is for many people an inexplicable process and not infrequently a reason to doubt the divinity of Jesus. The Lord suffered unspeakably on the cross, for it was the earthly body that took upon itself all the agonies of the death of the cross and endured immeasurable agonies of death. How could this be otherwise .... The spirit of God had to leave the human shell at the hour of death in order to complete the extent of the son of man's suffering, and thus He did not feel the slightest relief at the hour of death, for the work of redemption for humanity could only be completed in such a way that a human being completely gave up His bodily shell in the most dreadful pain for humanity's guilt of sin. A human being, Whose heart was full of love, took the most bitter death upon Himself. God was in all fullness in this human being, so that His activity on earth was divine activity, and all power over heaven and earth was due to Him .... And yet, He gave His miserable body to His enemies who wanted to destroy Him .... He made no use of His extraordinary strength, although one thought from Him would have been enough to destroy .... And His soul wrestled with itself in its agony and He spoke the words: "My God, why have You forsaken Me! ...." It was His soul that was still connected to the body and in deepest distress cried out for the father-spirit, which in turn had to escape from the human body if the work of redemption was to be accomplished. And He emptied the cup down to the last drop .... No human being can measure the magnitude of this sacrifice, for His soul was so blameless and pure .... It suffered unspeakably from the lovelessness of those who pinned Him to the cross, for His soul was pure love and therefore one with God, and yet this love was unable to hold back sinful mankind from ist projekt .... The divinity withdrew, and the human being in all anguish of soul, in all adversity and torment stayed behind and died the most painful death on the cross. What suffered on the cross was human shell, and it felt this shell such superhuman agony. And yet the work of redemption could not have been accomplished otherwise, for the love of a human being had to be so great that he sacrificed himself for the whole of humanity. And Jesus was the purest being of God .... Man was unsurpassable in His perfection, for He also concealed the deity fully and completely within Himself .... And this pure being gave Himself into the hands of sin, He handed His body over to the servants of darkness, and they did not shy away from touching the purest being and putting an end to His life. And in unspeakable pain Jesus spoke the words: "It is finished ...." and gave up .... i.e. the soul separated from the body, which suffered unspeakably out of love for humanity ....

Amen

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Father words ....

B.D. 0969 from June 18th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak .... and thus you should approach Me for help when you are aware of your weakness and I will strengthen you and pull you up again and again when you are in danger of sinking. And I will constantly speak to you .... I will be with you in the word, and you shall listen and eagerly receive My word and draw strength and refreshment from it. Thus My word also reaches you today in the form of a proclamation which shall trigger a feeling of happiness in your heart and unite you ever more intimately with Me: Behold, My child, what comfort lies in the assurance which My love gives you that all suffering on earth will change into highest and purest joy in eternity. You must unconditionally accept what the father in heaven promises His children, and once you imagine that My love knows no bounds .... when you know yourselves to be seized by this infinite love, then all anxiety must leave you and you must go through life joyfully and light-heartedly. Thus I will give you a sign of My steadfast love and will touch you with My breath .... and you will tremble with happiness, and all doubts will have disappeared from your heart, but instead a deep feeling of love for Me will flare up and I will feed the flame in you until you yourself ask Me to turn off the clock of life .... I promise My children eternal life .... and those who believe in Me and love Me, are My children .... and I want to stir up love in your heart and strengthen your faith .... and thus give you the eternal life .... So your prayer can remove all obstacles, and your spirit can unite with the father spirit, and that is why My great love awakens you and leads you through the night to the light .... And I want to possess your heart, I alone want to reign in it, and your spirit shall rise into the sphere where it is able to see Me .... I want to stand in front of them with a radiant face and delight your heart, which is completely turned to love, with unspeakable bliss, because when you look at Me, you lose all consciousness of your being. You are one with Me and My love embraces you .... And earthly time is a tiny moment in eternity, and truly, the suffering can only be called small if you measure it by eternity and its delights, yet it seems monstrous to you as long as you don't recognize Me and My love. Yet if you have complete trust in Me it will be explainable to you that My infinite love cannot let you perish after all and that I, precisely because I love you, am only ever concerned about your one-time life in eternity .... And thus just let Me rule and believe in Me .... I am a faithful shepherd to My sheep and will not lost any of them. Only the time is determined by yourselves if you offer Me resistance .... and you in turn offer Me resistance until you recognize My love. So let yourselves be loved and set your hearts free for Me so that I can take possession of them and you will already be blissfully happy on this earth and one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Light state ....

B.D. 0970 from June 18th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

In a sphere flooded with light the being becomes aware of its divinity, for then it recognizes its state as god-like. And it feels the eternal father-spirit close to it. And this state is synonymous with eternal bliss, for the whole mystery of eternal glory lies in the union with the father. This state of light is, as it were, indispensable in order to be allowed to dwell near the lord, for only in such a state can the lord's face be endured by a being which has thereby reduced or completely abolished the great distance between the father-spirit and the spirit spark emanating from Him. "Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect ....“ This already proves to you the degree of perfection, that the being should strive to achieve the highest possible degree of maturity in order to be able to rightful claim to the childship of God .... And a true child of God will accomplish the same as the father .... It will be the faithful image of Him in everything, Who created it .... The child emerged from the father, thus it must be of the same spirit .... it must be in the image of God, have the same rights and the same duties, and must therefore also be in the same degree of happiness, for nothing is withheld from it, because fatherly love does not want to deny or take away anything from His true child that is at His own unlimited disposal. And thus the spirit from God will primarily be active, it will merge with the eternal father-spirit .... and seek activity in all fullness of love, because a spirit can never rest but has to be active all the time. This activity is also a feeling of happiness, an everlasting distribution of his love power and at the same time an increase of it, because everything he gives in love is returned to him in increased measure. And therefore all light and all power emerges from God's love, and the light and the power shares itself with the being that is worthy of it .... and if the being receives, it must be the same, that is light and power in itself again, and it must be able to work like God, so create and create. And there must be love again like eternal love Itself .... And it has to see God face to face and therefore has to wallow in unspeakable bliss and serve divine love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Way to the heights thorny .... God’s word strengthening ....

B.D. 0971 from June 19th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

It is a grace without measure for you humans if you are worthy of the divine word, for brightest light shines for you in the midst of darkest night, and you can finish the path of life without worry and need not fear being misguided in the darkness. God's grace has always guided you humans as long as you have desired and used it, but how often has the path been thorny and impassable and you wanted to almost fail or take refuge on a more passable path .... but this does not lead upwards, but constantly downwards. And the way up must offer resistance of all kinds, it must be overcome and laboriously covered step by step if it is to lead you to the right aim. Yet God's love knows about every obstacle and would like to make the earthly child's path through earthly life easier, He would like to help it not to become despondent and discouraged, and thus He gives it refreshment and refreshment for its arduous path .... He does not leave the child uninvigorated but lovingly provides it with spiritual nourishment so that it will not pay attention to the discomfort of the path and easily and effortlessly overcome all obstacles in order to finally reach the father. And anyone who thus walks the path strengthened will never again long for the less arduous but equally dangerous path .... For at the end of the way he sees the form of the divine saviour Who lovingly looks towards him, and the desire for Him makes the earthly child always stride more sprightly .... it takes on the most difficult of obstacles with ease, because love for the divine saviour is the driving force, it is an incentive and strength at the same time. Yet without divine help the earthly child would grow weary in its struggle against all adversities of life. It would not be able to break through the thorns and the undergrowth on the way up and would soon lie weary on the path .... But the father in heaven has wisely thought of this weakness and taken care that it will be helped in the greatest need. And so He gives His word .... and through this strength and strengthening the earth child. And whoever receives it is in His grace .... He has countless blessings ready for His children on earth, and all of them are accessible to you through heartfelt prayer .... Yet His word is the epitome of the father’s gracious love .... for His word imparts immeasurable strength to the child .... Whoever has the word will never lack strength, only his faith must also be firm and unshakeable, for he is able to do anything with profound faith. Through the word he is taught to use the strength correctly .... yet if his faith is lacking or too weak he will not use this strength to the extent it is due to him. Therefore, first let faith become such strength that you no longer fear's resistance .... and only then will you understand the might and power of the word .... If you hear the Lord's voice, the influx of this strength is certain for you .... and if you receive such, then use them in the right way .... And share them .... share them with those who, like you, walk the arduous path over thorns and cliffs, so that, strengthened in spirit, they may continue on the path that leads upwards to the divine saviour .... Who longingly stretches out His hands to you and takes you home to your father’s house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Worldly rulers .... deep fall grace ....

B.D. 0972 from June 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The circle of otherworldly friends closes ever more closely around you and prevents the intrusion of dishonest beings, so that you will not feel their strength and be hindered in your striving. Thus the influx of spiritual strength will become ever stronger, and if it is your will you will now receive spiritual truths to an increased extent and can accordingly contact your friends at any time without having to fear a failure of spiritual strength. The eternal deity especially urges you not to become timid if you are threatened by earthly resistance. By only longing for the connection, spiritual strength promotes you, even if it is not always noticeable to your body. The spirit seeks God and every desire will be granted to it .... And you will receive mental strengthening at all times, and the spirit will have nourishment and will not need to live in want. But also visibly the strength will flow over you, and the spiritual good you receive will help you to survive the battle of life. For the lord gives strength and fortification to those who are in Him. You will only occasionally be troubled by oppositions, however, only to prevent you from becoming tired and lukewarm, for all devotion shall be directed towards this work, you shall again and again devote yourself to this spiritual work with true eagerness and thus also continue to be made happy by receiving the word of God. And from now on earthly events will be so precipitous, and this will be an ever greater incentive for you to seek contact with the spiritual world, for only spiritually will all earthly events be comprehensible to you humans .... Therefore receive a teaching today which shall point you to the sole power of the creator of heaven and earth:

At all times, the worldly rulers have asserted their power over their subjects. They arrogated to themselves the right that actually only belonged to the lord of creation .... by rising above their fellow human beings, enacting laws and as it were, making their subjects slaves .... They demanded and forced their fellow human beings to comply with their demands. And in the rarest of cases was actually love for one’s subjects the guiding principle of legislation. But if the earthly ruler uses his power in such a way that all love is eliminated and instead of love he is characterized by imperiousness, arrogance, greed for earthly goods and excessive injustice, such a ruler will never be able to find the approval of the divine creator, and such a rule will also never result in the blessing of a people. In such cases the lord has very often brought His divine power to bear .... He has often unexpectedly taken away the rulers' office .... He has let them fall from the height of their self-created throne into the deepest depths .... And not without intention .... In order to show even such an unjust ruler the path to repentance. It was often an act of grace of the greatest magnitude that the divine creator let such an arrogant human being recognize his worthlessness and how little the human being as such can help himself when the eternal deity puts a stop to him and he is ultimately nothing more than a miserable human being at the mercy of someone who exalts himself above him. As long as he rules himself he does not think of his actual self .... he recognizes nothing higher than himself; however, once he becomes aware of his helpless situation he first thinks of a higher power and is then still given the opportunity to turn back .... And thus the fall from the height into the abyss is often an act of grace of indescribable value .... mean the last salvation for a sinner who has completely fallen away from God, provided he is not yet completely hardened and becomes aware of his worthlessness. His relentlessness and severity must reflect on himself, so that he recognizes his condemnable conduct and remembers the suffering of those whom his severity has condemned. If his own fate brings him to realization, it is a great blessing for him to end his earthly life in greatest hardship and misery, but to have brought salvation to his soul. But woe to him whom his power as ruler has so hardened that he does not want to bow to the most powerful of heaven and earth .... Power will one day be taken away from him, and accusers will rise up against him who suffered under his rule, and they will testify against him before the eternal judge, and his sentence will be eternal condemnation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Content of the sendings .... communion ....

B.D. 0973 from June 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Every transmission from above is prepared so that your heart only needs to pay attention and receive the words in an easily understandable way. Regulated instruction can only be carried out when the recipient easily detaches himself from earth in his will to serve God and thus allows thoughts from above free access .... The best means is intimate prayer to the father .... and the announcement will always correspond to prayer or the intimate connection with Him. And the earth child is therefore itself responsible for the content of these. His will and his desire and his relationship with God is decisive, and if the spirit is insatiable it is also able to constantly receive nourishment .... Everything it desires will be granted .... earthly child longing for the word of God will never need to starve, and conversely, spiritual nourishment can never be offered to a person who does not feel a profound desire for it or who indifferently intends to accept it. And thus it is also understandable that the recipient only ever has to long for spiritual gifts if they are to be given to him from above in highest perfection, and therefore they will also increase in profound wisdom with increased desire, and in every offering the bread of heaven will also truly be enjoyed .... for the lord can only approach the earthly child longing for Him and thus take supper with it .... And He will satisfy it and draw it to His heart with all love, since it wants to take part in the great act of grace of heavenly nourishment ....

Amen

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Immortality .... Eternity .... Suicide ....

B.D. 0974a from June 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The question of immortality .... the concept of eternity .... cannot be solved by the human being because on one hand he cannot understand something that reaches beyond earthly concepts, but on the other hand he cannot be given a spiritual explanation which he could adequately understand either. Only on entering the regions of light can the being be given a partial explanation but even then it remains a problem which, like the eternal Deity, can never be completely solved and comprehended. This has to be said first in order to explain the following:

In times of great spiritual adversity people are inclined to believe that they can put an end to their lives at will, and thus an end to their existence, because they believe that they only exist for a limited period of time and hence feel entitled and qualified to shorten it. They simply lack understanding for immortality, for endlessness of time, for eternity .... That they will never cease to exist cannot be proven to them, but the thought of knowing that life will end one day is far more comforting to them .... And although from time to time the human being feels uneasy about the temporal ending he nevertheless rather accepts this thought than the thought of a continuation of life after death because he knows that everything on earth is temporary and therefore he cannot and will not believe in the immortality of his Self. To explain the concept of ‘eternal’ to such a person would simply be impossible .... The idea that something so intimately related to him should never cease to exist worries him and awakens his sense of responsibility because, understandably, life has to be viewed quite differently as soon as a permanent existence has to be taken into account.

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Immortality .... Eternity .... Suicide ....

B.D. 0974b from June 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Consequently, people who consciously deny life after death will not hesitate to end their earthly life themselves since they believe that by ending their earthly life they will dispose of everything, and fail to consider the consequences of their action if they are wrong. They only destroy the outer shell but not life itself and therefore they have to continue living it .... since it cannot be destroyed, neither on earth nor in the beyond .... it is, in the true sense of the word, immortal, i.e. of eternal duration. It is not possible to end it because the Creator has created the being out of Himself and everything of divine origin cannot possibly perish. For that reason the Creator, in His wisdom, has ordained that there shall be no limit for the being to reach its state of perfection .... that even in eternity it can steadily advance and thus be constantly active and give as well as receive .... without ever becoming exhausted or ever having received the ultimate from the eternal Deity. The earthly human being can barely conceive the concept of ‘eternity’, neither can immortality be completely explained to him since nothing on earth is everlasting, and since the immortality of soul cannot be proven to him he has to believe it. Likewise, human intellect cannot analyse the time concept of ‘eternity’ either. This attempt cannot possibly lead to a result as long as the human being cannot apply the same comparison to a physical medium. He only accepts something as true when he has conclusive evidence. And therefore there remains only faith again .... The human being has to believe what cannot be demonstrated to him, and thus the immortality of the being throughout eternity must precede all other reasoning ....

Amen

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Elimination of the God-opposing ....

B.D. 0975 from June 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The righteous expulsion of all souls hostile to God is imminent, for the lord has proclaimed this time in word and scripture. Humanity's striving is no longer directed towards the eternal deity but towards the prince of this world .... Mankind has consciously resisted the divine and therefore remains subject to the adversary who allowed all evil impulses to arise in man and found no resistance in him. And if man himself turns to that which must bring him ruin and feels no inclination towards the eternal divinity in himself, he must now also be fulfilled, and the separation between pure and impure spirits .... between God-recognizing and God-rejecting beings .... has been predetermined since eternity. It is not God's will which gives rise to this but merely the will of the human being himself, and therefore the divine creator does not allow any injustice, and He gives every being fulfilment of what it has longed for itself .... Whoever has fallen prey to the prince of lies, matter, feels comfortable in its proximity, and therefore he does not desire God .... for the slightest desire for Him, the most loving father from eternity, will still be fulfilled in the last hour, for the father does not abandon those who remember Him and recognize Him in greatest adversity .... Yet there are many of them who do not recognize the father’s love until the end of their life, who reject God and therefore cannot be grasped by Him as long as salvation is still possible. He cannot take possession of a person against his will, and He can even less forcibly direct the will of man to Himself .... anyone who does not want to recognize his belonging to the eternal deity and consciously turn to Him will fall prey to eternal death. On the other hand, the father has prepared all the delights of heaven for His own. And from now on He can no longer allow the earth to harbour an infinite number of beings who no longer remember Him and who threaten His true children with danger. For His spirit will share these and every gift from heaven will be mocked by those, and the apostates will outnumber the small group of believers and be powerless unless help comes to them through divine will. This is how the court prepares itself .... And every hour brings humanity closer to this inevitable event. Earthly life will be ever more highly valued and therefore suddenly come to an end for some who do not fear an avenging or punishing hand of God ....His spiritual blindness does not let him recognize the great danger in which his soul is floating, but even the quiet will to the truth would help him to recognize the error. Instead, he shakes off everything that could give him enlightenment and considers himself to be knowledgeable and exalted over teachings which point to the eternal deity. Therefore take note that before your eyes the world will ruins .... the world which until now has been the highest to you. Take note of the fact that before that you will still receive hints upon hints so that you will reflect and find your way back and acknowledge the lord God as lord of heaven and earth and willingly submit to Him so that He will grant you His grace and deliver you from the bonds of darkness ....

Amen

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Divine will .... earthly measures .... serving all spiritual ....

B.D. 0976 from June 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Understand that the world with all that is in it serves the lord of heaven and earth. It is enlivened by His spirit, and even if this spirit does not recognize itself correctly, whether it wants to escape from the eternal divinity .... it must serve against its will and submit to the will of the lord. And this expresses itself in the purpose of every work of creation, its task and activity in the entire universe. And only in this way can the immutability of the laws of nature be explained, only in this way can it be understood that everything must come to pass and shape itself in nature as it is .... and the will of man cannot bring about a change in it. Because God’s will is above its will. Since time immemorial everything created is the will of God in form, from the smallest creature right up to man .... Everything is subject to the divine will and cannot fight against it, and whether earthly rulers also seem to determine the events, they can only take shape in this way when the lord gives His consent .... He always has the power to prevent what goes against His will .... However, since it concerns the maturing of the spiritual substance, since everything in existence contains spiritual substances and every event serves the further development of these spiritual substances, the divine creator also allows the human being's will to be carried out, even though it contravenes divine order, it is just that the consequences of such a will have a disastrous effect on people themselves. And again, no event is without any benefit in a spiritual respect, even if it results in the greatest earthly misery. Suffering and sorrow are aids to spiritual higher development .... And thus measures imposed by human will with bad intentions, which therefore cannot correspond to divine will, will change again into spiritual means of education and thus be a blessing for weak but God-seeking earthly children, whereas the unlawful action of the person who thus decrees will fall back on him and must be atoned for accordingly. The human being's will is free, however, the lord transforms everything brought about by this will into salutary events that serve the salvation of the soul, according to necessity. Everything else, however, which is not yet in the human stage, is constantly subject to God's will and always has to go its way through all matter according to divinely wise plan. And there is no power whatsoever which can work against this will .... therefore the spirit out of God, which however does not recognize Him, is banished in form .... i.e. until the last embodiment is completely directed by the divine will and assigned its activity in the universe. Human action and thinking gives rise to the erroneous view that it is completely independent in earthly life, yet this too is in a certain, i.e., earthly sense, constantly directed, as far as it is conducive to spiritual development .... However, all spiritual life is entirely free from influence .... In earthly relationship the human being's will is respected as far as possible and the effects mitigated or changed for the better, depending on the necessity for the salvation of the individual .... In spiritual relationship, however, no being has to fear a compulsion of will, only all spiritual strength is at the being's disposal, just as everything spiritual must serve the lord of heaven and earth, but only for the purpose of developing itself upwards again, to the spiritual height, in order to ultimately also be able to go through the stage as a human being and the associated freedom of will, which gives it the final opportunity to overcome matter and to reach a state of spiritual maturity, which is its release from thousands of years of captivity ....

Amen

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State of light ....

B.D. 0977 from June 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Life in the beyond in a state of light is likewise inconceivable to people. It exceeds all earthly joys a thousand-fold; nevertheless, it differs entirely from the kind of earthly joys and, therefore, imparts happiness and bliss beyond all measure. And no amount of the human being’s imagination would be able to even roughly paint a picture that corresponds to the truth, for the heavenly pleasures awaiting a perfect being in these spheres are incomparable to anything on earth. In a state of light the being’s sensitive faculty equally surpasses all earthly feelings, for this reason no-one on earth will ever be able to understand the degree of pleasure which is granted to these beings. During the time on earth it must also remain inconceivable for the being, so that the human being will strive of his own accord towards perfection and not for the sake of reward. Yet the knowledge of this immeasurable happiness in the beyond would make all people strive for it with greatest zeal; nevertheless, in order to be truly prefect good must be done for the sake of good, and the reward should not come first. And therefore the heavenly Father has wisely arranged to leave humanity in ignorance about that which He has prepared for those who love Him .... He wants to possess the earthly children’s love, He wants to be their Father and reward their love in a Father’s way .... by giving the child everything that belongs to Him.… Therefore strive to become true children of God, so that you can partake in all heavenly delights .... and you will be blissfully happy beyond measure for all eternity.

Amen

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Earth way without God's help ....

B.D. 0978 from June 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Therefore hear the divine voice: The path upwards is passable for every human being if he walks it with divine help, yet it is insurmountable for those who do not need My support. And the more stubbornly they persist in their resistance, the more formidable the obstacles pile up in front of them and it remains a hopeless battle to overcome them. The human being grows weary and gives up the struggle, and he turns to the broad road that leads downwards. All instructions from above go unheeded, yet the world's call is heeded, and this to the detriment of the soul .... And My help and grace is ready for everyone, yet it remains unused .... earth rushes by and could nevertheless earn people unspeakable blessings if they respected them. Love dies out among humanity, and thus the human being also neglects to acquire grace through loving activity, and once again an aid is lost to them and the soul is in great distress. For the human being does not redeem himself, he also rejects all means of grace .... he also does not make use of prayer to Me which could bring him help and is thus deprived of all spiritual nourishment. He does not desire the refreshment of heaven and goes through earthly life unrefreshed and unfortified, which nevertheless makes demands on him if his soul is to free itself from its fetters. Thus it will look unspeakably bleak for such souls who believe they don't need God's help, and without loving support they will hardly be saved; yet My love and My mercy constantly tries to guide these souls onto the right path and calls and entices every earthly child to long for the father and to stretch out its hands to Me ....

Amen

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Developing spiritual abilities through constant practice ....

B.D. 0979 from June 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Love for the lord is also recognizable in the desire for divine wisdom, and the human being, who recognizes himself as a product of divine love, desires to participate in spirit in the working and activity of the eternal deity, i.e. to grasp all the wonders of creation with his senses and to know about things which are purest spiritual knowledge and therefore can only be received with the divine spiritual spark within him. Thus it only requires some practice and the will of man achieves unbelievable things in spiritual relationship. To fulfil all duties of the body is also only a matter of more or less practice, for the human being acquires skills in different areas through conscious striving for them, and this is the earthly purpose to educate himself in the profession he has chosen for his earthly life. It is the same with all spiritual abilities which can also be trained to a high degree through constant practice and which result in the success of being able to penetrate spiritual areas extraordinarily deeply and to increase spiritual knowledge accordingly. This striving always presupposes love for God, for the human being always wants to possess what he deems desirable. And through his desire for spiritual possessions he confesses that his soul and spirit are drawn towards divinity, whose product of love he is from eternity. However, if the love for God does not dwell in him, his senses do not desire the wisdom from God .... They are directed towards the world with its earthly advantages. Man desires fame and honour, earthly goods and earthly knowledge, and he finds complete fulfilment of his longing in them. And conversely, the world will appear stale to the person who has tasted spiritual truth .... for his desire for it will increase the more it is satisfied, yet the earth's goods will appear charmless and worthless to him. And love for God, for his creator, will displace everything from the heart which was ever hidden in it, and the least spiritual food will be far more enjoyment for him than all the pleasures of the world, for his heart will no longer be able to recognize them as such..., once it has found happiness in the presentation of heavenly wisdom and is allowed to satisfy its hunger for it through the grace of the lord .... For whoever perseveres in love for Him, his spirit may fly upwards as often as he likes .... he will always be cared for by divine love ....

Amen

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Spiritual sun .... union .... marriage with God ....

B.D. 0980 from June 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Learn from the sun and its rays that you can penetrate the darkness with your spiritual strength .... For everything is always and forever the same .... spiritual strength .... And just as the rays of the sun first have to overcome all resistance in order to make the earth happy with all its abundance of light and strength, the spirit in the human being also has to fight its way through all kinds of resistance in order to then radiate bright light to its surroundings, and this will be all the more so the more fully it trusts the battle with the resistance. Light and darkness will always be in battle with each other, yet the light will remain victorious if only it has perseverance .... Similarly, the one who is in spiritual battle will also defeat the darkness if he does not tire prematurely, for the lord gave him the assurance of His help in unlimited measure .... So whoever secures this help cannot flag up, and like the rays of the sun he will break through the dark clouds of spiritual despondency and leave everything cloudy and dark behind, radiant with victory. For the power of light is far stronger than that of darkness. The spiritual sun is a thousand times more powerful in its radiant effect, and it is able to penetrate everything, even the most secret corners of the heart, and it illuminates the darkest chamber, and thus nothing can remain hidden to the one standing in the light of the spiritual sun .... He explores what was previously unfathomable to him, he grasps what was incomprehensible to him, he descends into the deepest depths of divine wisdom and makes the flight to the highest height .... He dwells near the lord .... For to stand in the light of the spiritual sun means to constantly receive the grace of the divine lord; it means receiving the strength from God in abundance. And he who is permeated by God's strength soon unites his spirit with the father-spirit .... All power and all will emanates from God and is shared by His beings .... the being that opens up willingly to take in what is so lovingly offered to it unfolds to supreme strength and God-likeness, for it is completely permeated by divine strength; it cannot help but become a God-being itself, it unites with the eternal deity and completely passes into Its possession .... And this union is the highest and most blissful happiness, and if this is still granted to the human being on earth nothing will frighten him anymore, for he only still lives on earth according to his body, but his soul has united with the spirit and will never feel earthly suffering and physical pain again. And thus the union with the eternal father-spirit is the most perfect state which is certainly possible for a person to attain on earth if he fights and strives with all devotion, fullest faith and deepest love ....

Amen

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Announcement of an otherworldly friend ....

B.D. 0981 from June 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

When the day draws to a close the human being takes care of rest and his thoughts wander much more into the spiritual realm, and the friends in the beyond wait for this time in order to provide their loved ones on earth with support, to stimulate and direct their thoughts into the spiritual realm .... And a lively activity and busy spiritual work begins. Every soul on earth has its supervisor and spiritual support, and they leave no opportunity unused to fulfil their task for these souls. Love constantly drives them to spiritual activity. The desire to promote their state of maturity in order to spare them great suffering in the beyond keeps them constantly active, and the human being now senses the spiritual influence of these beings by the frequent lingering of thoughts on dearly departed loved ones or questions concerning life after death. The more intensively the human being devotes himself to such thoughts the more and easier the spiritual friends are able to influence him, such hours of inner contemplation are unspeakably beneficial, for the human being then establishes the connection with the beyond, even if unconsciously. But the beings in the beyond also feel the need to make themselves known to people. They still have the desire to express themselves but can no longer do so in the same way as in earthly life, yet the urge to communicate with their loved ones has not been lost. And where a willing thought of a deceased person draws him close to the human being on earth, the being in the beyond is delighted and a mental connection takes place between it and the human being which remains uninterrupted as long as the human being's will remembers the friend in the beyond. If the being in the beyond is perfect then its strength is understandably also sufficient to exert great influence on the earthly human being and thus to be able to mentally influence him. But less perfect beings in the beyond certainly have the desire to express themselves in some way, but their strength is not sufficient to establish a connection and to communicate with the earth beings as they desire. And this can only happen with the help of perfect spiritual beings on condition that they consider such communication to be advantageous for the earthly human being. But the beings' love for each other also lets them assist each other so that every soul's desire will be satisfied. And thus beings wanting to express themselves are constantly in your vicinity, and they wait for the favour of an announcement because they partly promise themselves blessings from it. They don't miss any opportunity and always stay around you because it is infinitely comforting for them to have found the visible evidence of the connection from the beyond to earth through your spiritual work. And so a friend wants to make himself known to you through the loving admission on the part of your protector and give you the explanation himself so that you recognize him: This is My greeting which I offer you .... Ne verum an dostitium .... God be with you and strengthen you for the task which you are to fulfil. Being single on earth has caused Me a certain poverty, for I am not followed by a loving prayer. I therefore feel it as a special blessing when your thoughts stay with me, for I have done nothing to earn them. I still felt this on earth and was therefore in great distress when the gates of earth closed .... Now I remember the unused earth time in remorse, I see your work, your striving and your love and would like to be able to be equally active still on earth. The burden of earth has been taken from me, but I still carry a burden with me, that I did not grasp the miracle of divine love .... that I researched, pondered and doubted where I had to feel God's love, that I did not prove Myself and accept the gift of grace with a grateful heart. I was given a time limit, but I let it pass .... O often seek Me with your thoughts, and call Me close to you, so that I may learn to serve the eternal deity and now fulfil My task properly. And so I can only thank you and call out to you again: Verita table just vitum ....

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Warning against worldly lures .... admonition for this work ....

B.D. 0982 from June 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

The time has come which leads you to your destiny, and therefore the gifts from above will be offered to you such that they can easily reach you or be received without disturbance. However, your own unwillingness is an insurmountable obstacle to receiving, but if this is overcome by you it is also possible that the beings on the other side will close you off from all hostility from outside and your train of thought will only adjust to the messages from above, which will enable a quick understanding and thus the receptions will come about effortlessly. The slightest distraction from outside disturbs the reception, but if the spirit is willing and consciously asks for the assistance of spiritual power, this is stronger than the disturbance. It is now extremely important that you become well prepared for your task which will approach you very soon. And the transmissions from above will therefore provide you with information in a certain order so that you can henceforth ask any question and receive an easily comprehensible answer. At all costs, however, you must pause during the hours of reception. You must not prefix any worldly occupation. The inner voice will always admonish you to act correctly, heed it and take every opportunity, for eager work is necessary and the blessing of those cannot be overlooked by you humans, yet they have been submitted to the spiritual beings by the lord, and therefore they constantly endeavour to stimulate you and promote your spirit. Anyone who puts himself in danger will very easily perish in it .... and thus you are urgently advised to resist all enticements of the world, for nothing is more detrimental to the soul than the glamour and splendour of the world. Then it will find it difficult to return to spiritual work, and this means an omission which is inappropriate in the adversity of the time. Therefore, wherever you can, try to keep away from all worldly pleasure. This is so extraordinarily successful in every respect, a resistance has been overcome and increased freedom has been provided for the soul .... in particular, however, the access upwards has been considerably facilitated, for all fetters which still hold the soul back on earth are obstacles to the flight .... But brave resistance sets the soul free. Consider this when temptations approach you, for every hour that can serve the continuation of this work is precious. Only a strong will overcomes, never let this falter, and ask for all the strength to do so in prayer ....

Amen

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Truth .... will .... weak faith ....

B.D. 0983 from June 27th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

He who seeks the truth remains in right knowledge. He emotionally rejects everything that contradicts the truth and can therefore believe everything his spirit willingly accepts. Anyone who desires the truth also willingly hands himself over to divine strength and is thereby already protected from accepting false teachings. If he submits his will to divine will he must now also want what is God's will .... He can therefore only accept what is true, because the active will in him rejects everything untrue, driven again by the divine spiritual spark which recognizes the truth and thus protects the truth-seeker from error. The human being's will to only act and think in a way that is pleasing to God always remains the surest guarantee; then he can never ever find .... literally guided by the lord's will. For the lord only demands the free will of man .... If this is turned towards Him, then there is also no danger of going astray, because then the whole human being is seized by divine power, which does not let him fall but constantly pulls him upwards. The timidity which often afflicts people despite their will to turn to God is only too weak faith .... Thus a person with strong, profound faith will have no doubts whatsoever about the truthfulness of the divine word, and therefore he will also be granted profound inner peace, for he need not trouble himself with doubts. But if the human being's mind is willing to consider the influence of evil forces possible then he also gives himself into their power, whereas a firm faith rejects all such thoughts and thus nullifies the effect of such power. And therefore all efforts of theirs remain unsuccessful, whereas a weak faith favours the working of these forces. Only unstoppable appealing for strength to resist effectively counters this danger, and thus prayer is again the only help when faith threatens to waver. In strong faith the human being is victorious .... He subdues all tempters and resists all onslaughts from the enemy’s side .... it is firm belief, a weapon that gives the fighter the upper hand and at the same time the shortest path to the truth. What the human being receives mentally in such unshakable faith can never ever be imparted by impure spiritual beings, thus by the prince of lies. To desire truth in deep faith means to receive it .... for the strength from God is at work Himself and can therefore only give divine things to the human being. However, unconscious straying of thoughts .... i.e. giving in to the temptations of the external world, weakens the desire for truth .... If the human being indifferently wants to draw from the source of truth, if the deep desire does not come from the bottom of his heart .... the spirits of lies have the possibility to take possession of the will of man more easily, to weaken it or even to get it completely into their power. (interruption)

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Prayer in faith protection against dark powers ....

B.D. 0984 from June 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 18

Whoever trustingly asks Me shall receive an answer to every question he asks Me. And so I will instruct you, My child, and strengthen your spirit.

Words will come to you in the same sense and all doubt will be removed .... ora et labora ....

And every word announces the lord's love to you. He always gives to His own according to their love, and if He instructs you Himself, His eye will rest on you .... The spiritual contact is closed, but your thoughts still wander too often. You must only constantly desire the truth from the heavens, so that it can reach you in unlimited measure. Once you are on the right track and willingly allow yourself to be guided by the eternal deity, you will soon be reluctant to submit to a power which is not turned towards the eternal deity. And thus the soul will soon realize that its freedom is to be taken away from it, and this will soon worry it and it will try to withdraw the power of those .... it will stop at nothing to keep its freedom and therefore strives for a speedy unification with the adversary of this power which wants to control it .... it will submit to the eternal divinity with all greater confidence .... it will request help from there which will also be willingly granted to it. However, in order to gain control of the soul the adversary will use every trick in the book, he will find many ways and means which seem to lead him closer to his aim, but the earth child will always be protected by the eternal deity, which it has consciously requested. And thus this power's efforts will be in vain .... It will soon give up all attempts to subjugate the earth child's will, since the divine power is stronger and grants it no right over the soul. Prayer is always and always the best means of defence against all evil power, and that is why the earth child always and in all danger knows how it can escape it if only it always takes refuge in prayer. All doubts will be resolved, all questions will be solved, all requests will be granted and every adversity of the soul will be taken into account if the earthly child faithfully asks the father in heaven to help it in its adversity. And again, the soul's faith is decisive for the fulfilment of the prayer, and this must particularly spur you on to struggle for strong unshakeable faith. For if you have this faith you will truly conquer everything, all things of heaven and earth will be subject to you, for then you will be permeated by God's strength and thus able to work through His will ....

Amen

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