New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 0985 - 1062

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

0985 - Works of charity.... without love.... in compulsion....

0986 - Words of eternal life....

0987 - Truth....

0988 - "Not as the world gives you...."

0989 - Reference to severe suffering.... power of prayer....

0990 - Passage through all matter.... light beings.... knowledge about it....

0991 - Spiritual riches.... conscious rejection of the truth....

0992 - Helping to bear the suffering of others.... work of redemption....

0993 - Materialists.... concept of God.... own will....

0994 - Power of divine love.... resistance....

0995 - Day of the separation.... raging of the elements.... natural events....

0996 - Sense of the Latin words.... mental weakness....

0997 - New spiritual realm.... (taken during a heavy thunderstorm)

0998 - Spiritual poverty.... spiritual wealth.... earthly renunciation....

0999 - Desire for the divine word is an outflow of God's love....

1000 - Charity motif....

1001 - Subordinating the will.... insight into the home of the spirit....

1002 - Unbelief reason for world events.... grace period.... frame....

1003 - Admonition to exercise self-control.... Gentleness - Peacefulness....

1004 - "Behold, I am with you always...."

1005 - Knowledge from God endures for all eternity.... participation of souls in teaching....

1006 - The soul chooses its own whereabouts....

1007 - Proof of what man believes....

1008 - Saturn ....

1009 - Information of the teaching spirit beings from higher light beings necessary....

1010 - Changes in creation.... disasters needed....

1011 - Inventions.... forces of nature.... faith....

1012 - Sun....

1013 - Sun....

1014 - Sun....

1015 - Sun....

1016 - Faith and love are the condition for realization and knowledge....

1017 - World conflagration.... prophecies....

1018 - Twitching lightning.... distress and gloom.... light morning....

1019 - Creature.... work of creation.... man....

1020 - Love.... grace.... word.... comforting words of the father....

1021 - Togetherness in love.... Easy earthly path....

1022 - Defender of the faith.... power of faith....

1023 - What is grace....

1024 - Miracles of faith and the power of prayer....

1025 - Jesus' suffering on the cross....

1026 - Wrong thinking.... rejection without knowledge of the matter....

1027 - Monastic life?.... (Concerning a previous conversation)

1028 - Monastic life?....

1029 - 'Vengeance is Mine....' Revenge....

1030 - Childlike relationship.... form prayer.... language of the heart....

1031 - Call of God.... earthly activity....

1032 - Compassion.... Sick and weak people....

1033 - Spiritual unity of all works of creation.... visible....

1034 - Immortality of the soul.... granting of grace....

1035 - Defeating resistance - reducing matter....

1036 - Living and dead faith....

1037 - "No one can serve two masters...."

1038 - Father's words.... praying in spirit and in truth.... tradition.... piety.... faith....

1039 - Conveying the divine word.... power of the word....

1040 - Assistance through spiritual power.... the saviour goes through all countries....

1041 - Circle of the knowing under control.... activity of the mind....

1042 - Spiritual guides.... why calling for help is necessary....

1043 - Benefit of the light from above.... spiritual poverty.... truth....

1044 - Protection of the saviour.... separation from the world.... resistance....

1045 - Fight against matter in the hereafter.... help from above....

1046 - Believers secular researchers.... providences of God....

1047 - The messages are given in a specified order.... Teaching....

1048 - Agony of the naked souls.... celebrations on earth....

1049 - Activity in the afterlife.... ray of light....

1050 - The eternal deity....

1051 - The eternal deity....

1052 - Total dedication.... audible voice....

1053 - God of love.... not God of vengeance and wrath....

1054 - Proclaiming the divine will.... direct and indirect voice....

1055 - Prediction of big events....

1056 - Putting a stop to all attempts directed against the work....

1057 - Reason for receiving.... (rejecting sister?)

1058 - Essence of matter....

1059 - Suicide?....

1060 - Lies and truth.... world of appearances....

1061 - Gathering spiritual goods.... building.... foundation walls....

Works of charity .... without love .... in compulsion ....

B.D. 0985 from June 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Caring for the general welfare should be left to those who have been assigned too narrow a sphere of activity for the duration of their earthly life. The lord has wisely given everyone the task they are able to fulfil. And everyone has the opportunity to work for the greater good. One person has more, another less opportunity to take the burdens of his neighbour on his shoulders .... and the more he endeavours to do so, the greater blessing he can expect for himself and the more the power of love will be strengthened in him and the will to love will be aroused. Only by serving will a person be able to reach the heights .... distribute in love to his neighbour what is at his own disposal and stand up for the need of man so that it may be alleviated and remedied .... but always driven by love for fellow human beings .... And this will result in rich blessings and man himself will never need to live in want if he always gives of what he has .... He should also never anxiously consider whether the gifts could diminish his possessions .... whoever gives much will receive far more, for the lord likewise shares His gifts undiminished from the one who endeavours to alleviate the need of his fellow human being out of love for Him. For "whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me." And now consider how much nobler a person acts who shares his possessions with the poor than someone who lives in well-organized circumstances but demands all the gifts he wants to distribute from the general public. Well-organized charity is like a weak oil lamp .... it does not fulfil its purpose .... It shines only insignificantly and spreads no light .... And so such works of neighbourly love, which however lack love, will have no redeeming effect .... Gifts are indeed offered to people, but the heart does not speak .... The giver does not sacrifice, but is forced to give his tribute, and so the power of love is not conveyed to the receiver. As it were, what is given to the other is taken from the one. An action is mechanized and made into a thoughtless fulfilment of duty, which should be born in the love of the heart and awaken love .... And these works are dead works before God .... He cannot look at what is born under compulsion and can never be an active labour of love. It is the most marvellous thing in life to share one's goods with the one who is likewise a creature of God .... to share every gift that the father in heaven has sent to man in His love .... to share of his own free will because his heart drives him to do so. But what is made a human being's task on earth is worthless. The human being certainly fulfils this task, but only because he has to, not of his own accord, and such works of neighbourly love cannot be valued by the heavenly father, Who only looks at the heart and the degree of love in which the gifts are offered ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Words of eternal life ....

B.D. 0986 from June 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Words of eternal life come to you with every reception. The lord gives His word always and at all times, and this word is received by those who desire it and live in love. When the lord makes Himself known, His nearness is proven, for he who hears the word must be in Him through love. So he may also believe without doubt and enjoy the grace of the lord. The lord promises eternal life to those who receive His word. It is His will that everyone should make use of the divine strength that flows from His word, and He therefore imparts His word to people on earth because they need this strength, but without it they have a hard time on earth. But the word is comfort and strength, it is spiritual nourishment, it is the bread of heaven, which is refreshment for the traveller on his way to his eternal home. If the divine word comes to you, receive it as the most precious gift, receive it with a grateful heart, rejoice and exult that the lord has mercy on you and visibly shows you His love, and desire nothing more than this, His most holy word .... You stand in immeasurable grace if you hear the voice of the lord and are allowed to draw from the fountain of eternal life. You receive heaven's blessing, you are raptured from the world, you approach the realms of heavenly bliss, you may only stretch out your hand and receive the most delicious gifts, and the lord Himself offers them to you, and the living water flows from the rock, which is strong unshakeable faith .... And now grasp it: He who has substantiated His word with His power does so in infinite love for you .... He wants to possess you and comes to you Himself in the word .... He descends to earth to gather His sheep around Himself, and His call is loving and concerned for every life. Those who hear this call and follow it willingly will be looked after carefully and His love knows no bounds .... The word that reaches people is His loving call to all His sheep, the word is life, eternity, love and power .... The word awakens and revitalizes, and it makes infinitely happy the person who listens to this word, who desires to receive it and takes it into his heart .... And in the word is the lord Himself .... "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." Where therefore the lord speaks, there you receive purest truth, you receive from the hand of the creator everything that leads you towards eternal life, and if you now believe without doubting, the path is free of every obstacle .... But every doubt weakens the will, yet love for the divine saviour will lift you up again if you want to despair .... And therefore remain in love, so that the lord may be close to you and honour you with His word ....

Amen

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Truth ....

B.D. 0987 from June 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The spirit guides you into truth, and all thoughts are therefore, if you desire truth, proclamations of the spirit awakened to life in you. If you now appropriate what you have heard from the spirit, i.e. make it your spiritual property, you are in the midst of truth and in the midst of realization. So first try to listen to the voice within you, i.e. give free rein to your thoughts and grasp what your heart is willing to accept, for the lord will place the right feeling of what is right in your heart and you cannot therefore feel anything else in your heart but the pure truth. Only where your intellectual thinking drowns out the voice of the heart are you in danger of misjudging what is right and falling prey to the spirit of falsehood. Let your feelings guide you and you will not be on the wrong track if your desire for the truth fills you. If you always observe this precondition, then you will be protected from all error, for the eternal deity, Who is truth in Himself, will not allow you to fall prey to error if you desire to stand in the truth. His fatherly love wants to impart the truth to the child on earth, and His power prevents everything impure and untruthful from entering the heart of the seeker of truth. And the source, the source of truth, is always and forever to be sought only from Him. Whoever now entrusts himself to the eternal deity Himself is in the circuit of His love and is nourished with His strength. A free relationship with Him, born out of love and the desire for his creator, also provides free access to all spiritual strength, and the spirit in the human being can make contact with the divine original spirit and impart everything that is visible to him as spirit to the human being; however, it will not reveal anything to the human being which does not correspond to the truth, for an awakened spirit is truth in itself, and only the unawakened spirit does not know the light which is called truth. But the human being whose spirit is still unawakened does not concern himself with spiritual things but still clings to the earthly world, or he tries to fathom spiritual things scientifically, thus based on purely material thinking, thus does not desire the truth for the sake of truth but for the sake of honour, fame and earthly goods. And since God and all spiritual things have nothing in common with matter, truth can never again come from God as the eternal truth Himself to those who burrow in matter. And again you recognize the boundaries which the lord has drawn, that He and the truth are recognized by anyone who, detached from the world, only turns to the spiritual, that he will always and forever be the bearer of truth and can therefore unconditionally believe the word which is imparted to those who seek the lord in all childlikeness and confidence .... that the father in heaven is their constant spiritual guide and that He only gives pure truth to the earthly child through the spirit of God, which it brought to awaken within itself through active love and desire for truth ....

Amen

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"Not as the world gives you ...."

B.D. 0988 from June 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

He who seeks Me and strives to fulfil My will serves Me. And I want to mould his heart and completely turn his mind towards Me. The burdens of earth should only contribute towards increasing the longing for Me; the human being should recognize in Me the saviour from all adversity and his deepest plea should be for union with Me. The more the earthly child worships, the more it longs for Me, and when it almost despairs, I stand before it most vividly. And his longing is satisfied and My love hands out to him what makes him unspeakably happy. Not as the world gives you do I consider you .... For the world rewards you with earthly treasures, but I have the joys of heaven in store for you, and these joys are by no means fleeting but eternal and inexhaustible heavenly delights. Earthly happiness is conditioned by the joy of possession, so man will always strive to possess what seems desirable to him. Heavenly joys, however, are founded equally in giving and receiving .... For everything is guided by love, and he who loves wants to give in the same measure as he himself receives. Therefore grasp God's goodness, His longsuffering and His mercy that He offers Himself as supreme happiness to all creatures on earth .... that everyone may only desire union with Him in order to be indescribably blissfully blessed by the eternal deity .... that He offers His love time and again to people who remain in constant defence because He does not want them to lose this supreme happiness .... and that His patience with people knows no bounds and that He tries to come closer to them in every way .... He wants all immaturity to recognize its condition and to make every effort to ascend and thus, through God's grace, to shape itself into a giving and receiving being ....

Amen

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Reference to severe suffering .... power of prayer ....

B.D. 0989 from July 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The distant time will teach you that you can only escape adversity and misery with divine help and that the door to eternity has to be passed through by everyone and that, again, the right path will hardly be found without divine help. If the human being is unable to cope with the effort of climbing upwards on his own he has to turn to the eternal deity for help if he wants to reach his goal. And if you pay attention to the coming time and notice how ever heavier the burdens descend upon you .... if you feel the pressure which is bestowed upon you from outside and if you often get into situations in life where you would like to despair and are completely despondent in the face of life, then remember that you have a sure means of help .... prayer. You can still be called immeasurably rich in all misery as long as you are allowed to turn to the father in heaven in prayer .... you are not helpless and abandoned, but one is always ready for you .... "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." And there is no need on earth so great that it cannot be remedied through prayer. And remember that you need nothing more for it than a heart turned towards the father in love and believing trust that He will not let His child call in vain. Leave all fear and doubt aside and trustingly lay all your worries at the father's feet, He always knows what is right for you and He only waits for your call through which you acknowledge Him as father. And the burden will be lifted from you and His love will refresh and comfort you in all suffering .... Only do not forget that there is one above you Who takes an intimate interest in you and Whose love is for you children of earth .... do not forget that all suffering is only imposed on you for the purpose that you should remember the father in such things and turn to Him for help .... For through prayer you acknowledge Him as your father and thus consciously enter into a childlike relationship with the father .... And your prayer will be answered if you believe without doubting ....

Amen

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Passage through all matter .... light beings .... knowledge about it ....

B.D. 0990 from July 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Everything you see on earth has travelled the path through matter and has to cover it until the spiritual has become free, that is, until it can consciously detach itself from it. This procedure takes an infinitely long time, the spiritual is imprisoned in form for thousands of years and cannot redeem itself but has to go through the course of development through God's will, which is the only way to clarify the spiritual and to free it completely from captivity one day. The (actual) supposed self-redemption can only start when all preconditions have been fulfilled, i.e. when the spiritual substance has already reached a certain state of maturity, without which, however, it would be impossible to confront the being with the final task of self-redemption. On the one hand, it takes an incredibly long time to make the being in matter itself feel its present state of agony and thus to awaken in it the desire to become free so that the next stage of development can be offered to it .... On the other hand, however, the being has to fulfil important tasks in all stages of development in the whole of creation, and the path through all matter is again the only possibility to overcome and one day master it, because the task in the beyond as a being of light is to enliven all creation, i.e., to provide unredeemed spiritual substances with the opportunity to mature through new creations of all kinds. Therefore all matter must be dominated by the being of light, this being of light itself must have travelled the path through matter; and then again the period of time of this embodiment of the spiritual in form is to be called vanishingly small compared to eternity. Only the concept of time has to be well grasped by you men to make you fully understand the meaning of your stay on earth, because when you consider that the endless long time before is to have missed its purpose, when you consider that you as men have your self-redemption completely in your hand, when you imagine, what favours are at your disposal and how you can use them and it only requires your will to become free of all matter and to leave earth life in the state of light, then you must realize the immense responsibility which you yourselves bear in earth life, and therefore you must well consider the infinitely long course before and strive with all senses and firm will to detach yourselves from matter. You will leave earthly life after a shorter or longer time, and in a certain state of maturity you will also suddenly recognize your change through innumerable works of creation, you will be able to assess the state of maturity which each form brought you, and it will fall from your eyes like scales with which love the eternal creator has given and guided you and how little you have rewarded this love in earthly life, which truly offered you enough gifts of grace but was not really used by you. And yet you have to take the last course on earth without full knowledge of this if you are to be able to transform yourselves into the purest beings of light .... All knowledge would influence you unfavourably as long as you do not strive for the highest perfection of your own accord. In order to become perfect on earth, all you need is a deep faith and profound love for God and therefore also for your neighbour .... Then this knowledge will also be made accessible to man .... God's grace and love will then obviously come to meet him and help him to survive the last battle on earth, for then the being has already consciously turned to Him and separated itself from matter .... Thus, the knowledge of this no longer puts him in a forced state, but of his own free will and of his own accord he found his way back to the father ....

Amen

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Spiritual riches .... conscious rejection of the truth ....

B.D. 0991 from July 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

being in living contact with the divine lord brings man the greatest spiritual wealth, and this direct instruction should therefore be extremely desirable to people, but they often do not recognize such an extraordinary working of the eternal deity in its full extent and are therefore little interested in it as long as they do not penetrate the divine reign and working through love within themselves. The blessing of divine teachings lies only in the perseverance of constantly receiving them. It is only through its constant willingness that the earthly child gives proof that it is imbued with the divine teaching .... He no longer asks for earthly success, but is always and constantly intent on collecting spiritual goods and completely disregards earthly advantages. Yet this obvious working of God will remain a difficult problem for people to solve, despite many attempts, where the human being is immensely occupied by earthly activity in his daily life. All attempts fail where intellectual clarification is required, whereas the evidence of divine activity of love is irrefutable and indestructible by hostile power where the human being wants to recognize it. The human being, who always wants to prove, will not shy away from making false claims in order to be able to deny only spiritual working, and yet in the end the truth will obviously come to light, for the truth will continue to exist throughout eternal times, whereas everything that does not want to recognize the truth must perish. And thus it is far more beneficial to receive the divine gifts and allow them to take effect even without the necessary understanding than to not allow the pure truth to come to the fore due to purely human weakness. For this will come to light and those who consciously reject it and do not increase their spiritual wealth will be at a great disadvantage ....

Amen

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Helping to bear the suffering of others .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 0992 from July 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

You participate in the lord's work of redemption if you willingly take the suffering of your fellow human beings on your shoulders, help them carry it and, in view of Jesus' suffering on the cross, humbly bear everything the lord sends you. Only through suffering can humanity be redeemed, for suffering must be overcome and diminished through active love, and only active love can accomplish the work of redemption. And love again would have no field of activity if suffering on earth did not demand alleviation and could not be controlled by love that has become an act. And humanity so often turns away so as not to have the suffering of its fellow human being before its eyes, thereby hardening its hearts and is so infinitely far removed from being redemptively active on earth. There is not one among men who does not need loving help, and the need of the time gives everyone more than enough opportunity to lend a helping hand and assist their neighbour in every kind of need. Whose heart is willing to help, he will also feel where his help is needed, he will recognize the other person's plight and immediately step in; and he will receive support from the spiritual side, which is also responsible for the care of earthly beings. For the work of these is also only constantly aimed at saving erring souls in the beyond as well as on earth. Their heart, which beats with love for all these souls, recognizes the beings' plight and immediately steps in to help, both in a spiritual as well as in an earthly respect. For the two go hand in hand. All earthly help results in unspeakable blessings, for it is a labour of love and thus the human being participates in the divine saviour's act of salvation, even if he is still unaware of it. And thus the human being should endeavour to help and alleviate wherever he sees his fellow human being in need, for what he neglects to do on earth he will have to make up for in the beyond, yet on earth it will bear immeasurable fruit ....

Amen

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Materialists .... concept of God .... own will ....

B.D. 0993 from July 4th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

What man rebels against most is the acknowledgement of a power that he does not see or somehow perceive. As a person still standing in matter himself, he is still material to such an extent that only that which he is able to see or whose existence can somehow be proven is a concept to him. However, he rejects everything else as implausible as long as matter holds him captive. Only at the moment when matter begins to lose its value for man has the concept of God become comprehensible to him; he now begins to believe in a being, a power, without being able to prove its existence. However, he will not come to full realization until he himself has made contact with the eternal deity, even if unconsciously. The mere consideration that the whole universe must be controlled by a higher being gives rise to frequent reflection, and the human being occupies himself in spirit with the supreme being and begins to recognize the controller of the universe in all works of creation .... From now on he is far more interested in everything that points to the divine creator than in matter, which only appears to be a hindrance to him and is therefore avoided, i.e. fought against, by him more than ever. It can now also be understood how little can be successfully spoken of spiritual things to a materialist, because everything that cannot be grasped or felt by him with his hands appears questionable and untrustworthy to him .... And all talk in this regard is in vain until matter no longer appeals to him or he is obviously made aware of the work of the eternal deity through painful events. The lack of spiritual knowledge is often not so disadvantageous for such a person, for he would outright deny it or regard it as the pipe dream of a fantasist, and therefore such a person should remain in his ignorance until he himself has a desire for it and expresses this through a thoughtful nature and willing detachment from everything worldly .... combined with a steadily growing desire for spiritual truths. Such a person can penetrate far deeper into the spiritual realm if such a transformation has taken place within him, however, this transformation must have taken place of his own free will, there must be no human influence whatsoever, for it is precisely such initial deniers of God who are extraordinarily mentally active, and if they deal with this problem of divinity in the first place, they will certainly get on the right path through the mental influence of the spiritual helpers, whereas human influence would only strengthen their will to reject and thus the goal would be more difficult to achieve. However, it is not disadvantageous to direct such people's thoughts towards areas which were previously foreign to them so that they are offered the opportunity to decide for themselves .... but free will should do the rest ....

Amen

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Power of divine love .... resistance ....

B.D. 0994 from July 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Nothing is more powerful and extensive than the power of divine love. Man and every work of creation are the products of this love, and countless new creations are immediately brought into being through the power of divine love and everything that lives is continuously cared for. Whatever is born of love must move unchangingly in this love and be fed and sustained by it. For a being that lacked divine love would have to cease to exist, since it is in itself God's will to love and therefore, if God wanted to withdraw His will to love, it could no longer exist. Yet God's wisdom, in loving care, united all beings emanating from Him with each other again through love, so that they, as separate beings, seemingly stand isolated in creation, yet strive towards their starting point again through active love for each other and thus become again what they were from eternity .... power and love in God .... And since divine love rules everything, because everything emerged from it, no other power can ever destroy what is love in itself .... Yet the God of love also created a resistance for Himself and endowed it with the same abundance of strength, with the same abilities and free will in order to be able to test the strength of His love as it were .... For it had to be a resistance in order to stimulate all existing things to extreme activity from then on, for all activity unfolds according to its resistance. Only in constant struggle does strength increase, and constant activity is life. And because all strength from God is available to these God-begotten beings, it is also possible for them to overcome the resistance, as a result of which the strength in itself increases but is lost to the opposing power to the same extent. God's love is light, strength and grace, and the being's reunification with God takes place when it desires divine grace, which gives it strength from God, and the being then becomes pure light and love and has therefore returned to its origin. Every reduction of this strength withdraws the light from the being and increases the power .... thus the influence of the adversary on the being. But then the love of God wrestles with the adversary .... in that God's grace approaches the being to an unusual degree and now a fierce battle starts for the spiritual being born of God, on which love imposes itself as it were in order to show it the right path. Yet in the same way the opposing power also struggles for its possession, only it does not choose noble means but tries to force the spirit down through vices, hatred and vices of all kinds, and these means of power are by no means as successful as divine love .... For the power is love, which is inherent in every highly developed spiritual being, is already so inexhaustible and powerful that it conquers the power of darkness .... Yet every spirit was created out of God with free will, love courts every being and is not afraid of resistance, for it can never exert itself, thus it cannot be defeated either .... Conversely, however, evil is not banished in the will either, for it drives love to highest activity, thus also to constant increase .... And thus the adversary loses power despite all apparent successes .... one being after another is wrested from him through love .... Love will assert itself and encompass everything in infinite space, in time and eternity ....

Amen

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Day of the separation .... raging of the elements .... natural events ....

B.D. 0995 from July 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The lord lets world events take their course as it has been determined since eternity, for people themselves desire their downfall since they likewise bring about the separation from God themselves, for they have already given Him up in their hearts and therefore do not hesitate to deny Him outwardly as well. And therefore the day of separation must come .... The day when the righteous will be separated from the unrighteous and everyone will find their well-deserved reward. Mankind does not believe until the judgement will overtake them, sin takes over, and man no longer respects his neighbour's property, he falls into sin and vice and therefore has to expect an imminent end if he does not decide to repent. And the end will be here very soon .... people will think they are at the height of their lives when the end comes .... They will still endeavour to gain everything beautiful from the world, they will indulge in the pleasure of life, indulge their desires, regard themselves as masters of creation and think of no higher power and be torn from the highest enjoyment of life by this power, which will put an end to it because it will no longer be remembered. The world turmoil will be so great that the admonition from above will not be heeded, which will still reach them in the last hour through God's grace and mercy. They will mock what points upwards and put in chains whoever pulls against them through the word. And then the spiritual and earthly decay will begin .... And no-one will be able to save himself without divine help .... And the distress will be great, the forces of nature will have a devastating effect, the earth will burst, the waters will roar, the mountains will move and valleys will spill over, fertile land will turn into desert, and nothing on earth will be spared or offer protection to those who want to escape the judgement. And the elements will unleash such violence that everything that human hands have created will be destroyed and boundless misery will reign where earthly power and splendour used to be. Everyone will be small and powerless in the face of this raging of nature .... And the lord will be heard with a voice of thunder in this roar that will fill the whole earth. And only he will be saved whose heart sends a heartfelt sigh to the heavenly father. But the lord has as little regard for the hardened sinner as he has for Him and lets him perish so that the earth only serves as a dwelling place for the person who recognizes a God in heaven and wants to serve Him. But whoever prays to the father in greatest need will find favour in His sight and likewise be miraculously saved from all distress .... And blessed are those who carry the lord in their hearts and are prepared for the coming judgement .... the lord will lovingly stand by them so that they will not lose faith in Him in the greatest adversity but remain strong and fearlessly and trustingly abandon themselves to the father in heaven. He will lead them out of all trouble ....

Amen

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Sense of the Latin words .... mental weakness ....

B.D. 0996 from July 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Nomine l'est arkanum brento

Behold, My child, you hear My word and the wise do not grasp it. It is My will that you nevertheless have faith in divine guidance, which does not allow anything to happen to you without intention. The meaning is still closed to men, these words still awaken doubts in you, but with firm faith enlightenment will also come to you. A writing will come to light which bears the same wording and a supernatural activity will be recognized in it, and then it is extremely important to have these words in your writings, therefore take them down in your writings without hesitation and trust .... for only faith will give you the strength you need ....

In moments of spiritual weakness the eternal divinity often imparts a food to you which seems indigestible to you, however stimulates the spiritual activity so that this weakness is overcome, and now a digestion process starts in spiritual respect, which influences man immensely furthering, and whether you also resist and would like to withdraw from this influence, the spiritual holds you captive as with chains, and you do not give up for the sake of slight doubts what up to now was the highest for you. The living water must also flow inexhaustibly from an inexhaustible source, and whether you receive even unmeasured, no limit will be set for you, and the more you receive the more astonishing results you will achieve. And the battle for truth will be incomprehensible to you, for you stand in the midst of truth and can no longer comprehend other thoughts. You have become bearers of strength yourselves through the reception of divine truth, and you find this path so natural because you are completely permeated by the strength of this truth. And thus you also have to accept from the father's hand what comes to you with wise intentions .... You are truly unable to draw the boundaries yourselves as to what is credible or not and therefore only ever have to endeavour to act in accordance with God's will and thus do what the voice of your heart commands you to do, and your actions will be right before God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New spiritual realm .... (taken during a heavy thunderstorm)

B.D. 0997 from July 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Thus begins the new time, the new spiritual kingdom .... everything will tremble that was previously at rest, and all spirituality will be unspeakably agitated, and only the will that belongs to God will be authorized in this coming time of maturity. And the world will be defeated and with it everything that is hostile to the soul. Then the spirit will detach itself from matter and soar upwards, and it will seek its creator in order to honour Him for all eternity .... And when this time is approaching, the lord makes Himself known so that all the world hears Him .... He calls those who are in arrears and reminds them often to remember their souls; He bears witness to His power and knocks on everyone's heart and desires admission, and with a loud voice He warns them to forget Him. And when He will come to earth in power and glory then the new spiritual kingdom will have arisen and the bright day will have dawned which will replace the spiritual night and the darkness will part and the dawn will herald the day, and those who experience the emergence of the new kingdom will rejoice in the light ....

Amen

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Spiritual poverty .... spiritual wealth .... earthly renunciation ....

B.D. 0998 from July 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

It is an ineffable happiness when man's mind is focussed on the eternal and imperishable. All spirit of the present time only seeks the earthly and has become almost unsurpassable in its desire for the world; it almost never enters into a state of self-contemplation, and man remains superficial in his nature, full of lust and earthly-minded, and yet he must constantly realize his spiritual poverty, his empty inner life and his extremely endangered state of soul, and he must unwaveringly endeavour to free himself from this painful situation of the soul. Only he who desires God and His kingdom can be accepted into the circle of the knowledgeable and thus draw from the eternal fountain, and this spiritual knowledge is so immeasurably valuable as it immensely promotes the soul's higher development, and thus it also recognizes the uselessness of earthly life, even if it is not granted any bodily pleasures and joys in earthly life, it nevertheless has faith in immortality, in eternal life and its glory and can be called far richer and happier than it could ever be in earthly enjoyment. And all the power of the world cannot hand out what the lord God promises to His own, for it cannot give anything of itself that the lord does not give or that is His will from eternity; on the other hand, He will give His own an abundance of inner happiness and spiritual gifts and also an abundance of earthly possessions if the human being desires spiritual wealth and perseveres in love for the lord and his neighbour .... But how poorly the world will consider him .... How devastatingly small will be the successes a person has to show at the end of his days, and what a lack of spiritual wealth will characterize the uselessness of earthly life and what painful remorse such an imperfect soul will feel .... But heaven will be open to the earthly child who has renounced all earthly pleasures and turned towards eternity. Life on earth is truly short .... what a person has lacked in this life will be given to him in abundance in the next, and he will find priceless possessions there again if he has collected them on earth and thought of the life to come. Man asks the spirit from God about things that are still incomprehensible to him, and the spirit wants to bring him understanding. However, if he does not find the ground prepared, he cannot receive an answer, for in order to receive it he needs the will to renounce earthly enjoyment and only seek spiritual edification. This replaces a thousandfold what he gives away, for earthly happiness is like foam, it fades away and leaves nothing behind that is of value for eternity. But spiritual endeavour gathers spiritual riches and stimulates the human being to penetrate spiritual knowledge ever more eagerly, and the divine blessing will not fail to materialize and such an earthly child will be provided for in abundance so that it need not live in want when it has left earthly life. For the lord will share His wealth of love with the one who desires Him and His love ....

Amen

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Desire for the divine word is an outflow of God's love ....

B.D. 0999 from July 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Surrounded by divine love, you will remain in the spirit of the lord, for it can never be separated from Him who has taken such intimate contact with Him. And the more intimately you implore Him and His grace, the more powerfully His love works in you and draws you close to Him, as it were. And His word is the outflow of His love, which has taken hold of you and no longer wants to leave you. And this love is strength and shares itself with you .... The more you desire this strength, the more noticeably it flows into you, for its fullness expresses itself in a constantly increasing longing for the divine word .... in a fervent desire for divine grace and deep strength of faith. The earthly child will desire the word of God from the bottom of its heart, for it cannot do otherwise because divine love permeates it .... it will remember the lord at all times and in all places and long to enjoy His presence through the word .... It will listen to this word with the greatest devotion and never tire of receiving it; and this longing desire is, after all, the love of the lord, Who directs all of man's feelings to Himself and makes him immensely happy in giving. This is incomprehensible to the world, for it does not even remotely grasp the possibility of a connection between God and man on earth, which has such an obvious effect and yet again only makes itself felt spiritually, because all feelings in this respect can also only be felt spiritually. And the world grasps the creator's infinitely deep love for His living creations even less .... What devotes itself to Him is inseparably connected to Him through love, and whoever desires Him receives incomparably precious things and does not have to fear a decrease of divine grace and a diminishing of His gifts from above. Desiring and listening within produces incredibly wise results, and in the divine word the lord reveals Himself to those who desire Him .... Is there anything more beautiful and valuable on this earth than to dwell in spirit where the father is? .... And to feel the love of the father over and over again and to receive His grace? .... He who is honoured on earth with the divine word is to be called immeasurably rich, and all power flows to him. And thus the lord must educate His little children on earth to love if He wants to work through them and make their hearts receptive to His word .... He must incessantly influence them mentally, yet if the will professes Him undividedly and the earthly child has felt the divine grace in itself it will remain faithful to Him for all eternity, for the lord protects those who devotedly entrust themselves to Him, He continues to give them divine truth and the human heart is inflamed with ever more ardent love for Him and is no longer able to live without the lord's visible love. Life would be of no value to him if he had to give up this most precious union with the lord. The more he longs for the lord, the more inseparably he unites himself with the heavenly father and remains His for all eternity ....

Amen

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Charity motif ....

B.D. 1000 from July 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The motive of christian neighbourly love has become completely different from what it should be from God, and this is due to the fact that humanity is no longer aware of how necessary 'love in itself ' is to return to the father and how everything in the universe is closely interwoven with the concept of love. Love for matter is spiritual death, but love for one's neighbour and thus for God as the creator of all things is spiritual life. Wherever only true love would be active, no spiritual decline could be recorded, but where love for matter predominates, all spirituality is completely lost. Love is the highest thing on earth and points the way to God .... however, if it applies to earthly possessions, it increases matter and pulls downwards .... The more a person is filled with the feeling of love, the more clearly the spirit in him will be able to express itself, but this love must be for God and his neighbour, not for matter. An extremely wrong way of thinking has now brought humanity so far that it is no longer able to distinguish what true, i.e. divine love is .... whether it springs from the heart or has its origin in the physical life of man, in purely physical desires. The person who is driven by inner love to do good incessantly does not think of any earthly reward, but this holy feeling of love is so fused with himself that he cannot help but be lovingly active .... He has the urge to help, comfort and give wherever his (love) help is needed. He does not calculate anxiously, he does not give to his neighbour in a measured way, but is only imbued with deep love for his neighbour, and this is the right love before God, which is also the right path to eternal life .... The human being, however, who only remains in matter, is only intent on increasing matter on earth, i.e. earthly goods, and deriving his advantage from everything. If he now helps his neighbour, it is always only a certain calculation to gain some kind of benefit from it, and pure, unselfish neighbourly love is a concept he does not understand. But calculating love can never have a redeeming effect, and charity is again the greatest factor that must be reckoned with .... Man is supposed to redeem himself through love, but the love of possessions usually takes precedence and prevents him from practicing unselfish love. Consequently, anyone who wants to comply with the divine commandment must willingly renounce matter, he must learn to despise it, only then can pure love fill his heart .... he learns to love God when matter is nothing to him, and thus also his neighbour .... since love is inherent in man, all too often in the wrong sense. Anyone who loves himself more also craves all earthly possessions, and no matter how far away the eternal deity is from him .... he must first willingly surrender everything that binds him to matter .... he must seek to become free of it and mould himself into love .... only then will the human being experience an inner transformation; he will feel the spark of divine love within himself and then cannot help but transfer it to other people, and only then will this be true christian neighbourly love, which has a redeeming effect in the true sense of the word ....

Amen

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Subordinating the will .... insight into the home of the spirit ....

B.D. 1001 from July 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The eternal deity demands your will and the use of all your strength .... you are therefore only allowed to relinquish your will but in return receive immeasurable divine strength, and the meaning and purpose of your earthly life is completely fulfilled. For if you submit your will to the lord, He will now guide you as it serves you and give you the strength to be able to fulfil all requirements. All responsibility is then taken from you, for you have willingly handed it over to the lord, you are in full possession of divine strength .... It will therefore not be difficult for you to do what the lord asks of you through His commandments .... And thus you will fully prepare yourselves for life in eternity and will be able to leave earthly life in a perfect state, for then you will also have love .... since the subordination of one's own will to the divine will is conditional in love for God. However, where a person lacks love for God, he will not submit himself joyfully but rebel and want to act contrary to divine will. As a child of God, however, the feeling of love for the father must outweigh everything else and the will to serve Him and keep His commandments must be born out of such love .... Perishable goods must be sacrificed to Him, while spiritual riches must be pursued with all fervour, always thinking only of the soul and not of the body. And then the father in heaven will fetch His child home because it has fulfilled its mission on earth .... And now the father wants to announce to you how the spirit that is in you endeavours to detach your soul from matter .... He wants to let you gain insight into the realm that is its true home, which is only permitted to the soul when it has united itself with the spirit from God. Full of harmony and yet varied appear to the observer the regions which grant the stay of the soul united with the spirit. For such a soul can no longer be touched by anything imperfect, nor can it be disturbed figuratively, for where the light shines, all impurity is far away, and a soul that has become one with its spirit stands in the light. As soon as the soul has escaped the earth or its body, all heaviness, all burden of the earth is taken from it, it sees everything in radiant light from that hour on and is no longer touched by the heaviness that affects people. And an indescribable feeling of bliss informs it of the divine saviour's nearness, and the longing for Him is so immeasurably great that the lord satisfies this longing, which arises from love for Him, with His presence and this is the epitome of all bliss for His creature, which only now becomes what it was from the beginning .... a part of the eternal deity and thus divine power of love .... This strength communicates itself again to the beings whom the blissful being of light wants to assist, for it now has to give in the same measure as it receives, and that state is unspeakably blissful, and everything that presents itself to the spiritual eye of the being of light is of such incomparable beauty .... and the being rejoices in its freedom and remembers with horror the shackle in earthly life which held it in bondage for a long time. Now that the soul has succeeded in uniting with the spirit, everything heavy and burdensome is left far behind, and only now does the soul realize how necessary the conscious striving for this union was and how oppressive the bound state was for the spirit. And now it endeavours with greatest zeal to release other souls from their captivity, and for its part it now does everything in order to enlighten and help them and is indescribably busy and active when it is necessary to facilitate their path upwards, so that one day these souls, too, will become free and can enter the kingdom of peace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unbelief reason for world events .... grace period .... frame ....

B.D. 1002 from July 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The distress on earth has never been so great, that the eternal deity felt compelled to violent intervention to such an extent, that unnamable misery is granted in earthly relationship of humanity. The more faithless people walk their paths, the harder they will be shocked by those measures, because only this faithlessness alone is cause of all suffering, but this is the last chance still to influence the people educational in a way. If even then man passes suffering and misery all with closed eyes, without thinking of the Lord, there is any help for the soul impossible. Deepest loneliness and abandonment human can only recognize, that any other purpose is the reason of his earthly existence, and the reasoning is only steered then correct, when the man is striving to fulfill his purpose on earth. What formerly moves his mind, is earthly and therefore completely useless .... Only in the state of knowing the direct influence of spiritual strength is so far perceptible, that now all gains form and life, which so far touched man only in an unreal mental way. But at times of deepest unbelief people’s sense is much more willing to find favor to superficial, unimpotant things, and always strive, to exploit earthly as possible for the short time on earth, but to reject all spiritual thoughts, and thus spiritual forces have little influence on those people .... Where now all effort of these remains unsuccessful, where the human is completely outside spiritual work, it is necessary now, to make use of means, which probably bring unspeakable misery, however are not completely unsuccessful, and so the events on earth are increasing day by day, visible by notify the transitoriness of earthly goods and bodily life .... Incessantly people is pointed the way, they have to go, but this way does not appear them passable precisely because they do not want to believe. They will oppose each natural disaster and also all other events again and again their arguments and objections full of wisdom, but never want to recognize the admonitions and warnings of the eternal Godhead in it. And the strangest events are quite natural in their view, phenomena explained with forces of nature, which is attributed no extraordinary importance. A repetition of such events from time to time will only achieve, that mankind gets used to it and always opposes apathetic to them, and the inevitable consequence from it is, that the eternal Deity will give now correspondingly more powerful signs and its ministry to people, so that even the weak in faith, not completely stubborn people realize this as mission from above and save their souls, before it is too late. Such signs must indeed always happen to the people within one’s natural means, in order not to influence the will of the same compulsorily, but the magnitudes of these signs will yet many people cause to think. And will even become suspicious, who engaged in purely scientific pursuits till then, when they will realize, that their studies and results do not withstand and all earthly calculations get irrelevant in face of such events, which intervene disturbing and catastrophic in the earthly life. Because the work of the Lord will appear everywhere .... people will notice the extraordinary of His ministry, but not recognized as such. People will look too much for an explanation corresponding to their thought and will, but also recognize the inadequacy of their knowledge .... Truly their doubts will be a blessing to them, because it is the begin to believe, because who is not afraid to admit, that his knowledge to explain is not sufficient, he looks involuntarily to get a spiritual way after a statement, and then is no longer left in unknowing or doubts, because he seeks the truth and therefore he is very close advised to the right path. So then he pays attention only to the emotion of his heart, he will come to the right knowledge soon, and this will redound to the benefit of his soul. There is still bestowed a short grace period upon the people, and yet the day will dawn very soon, when death will bring in a big harvest, and blessed is the man, who regards all signs and will not be indolent to work in his soul. For God will go to see each, and also the big coming event is only a demonstration of the infinite divine love, which is directed at all creatures on earth, and therefore leaves nothing undone, to save these creatures from desperate straits of the soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Admonition to exercise self-control .... Gentleness - Peacefulness ....

B.D. 1003 from July 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Learn to restrain yourselves and become gentle and peaceful, for your time on earth is given to you as a probationary period during which you should reach full maturity, training and shaping yourselves for the benefit of your soul. You will hardly be able to fulfil your earthly task if you don't strive for this first, for all your soul's difficulties arise from your own lack of self-control. And thus hear what the Lord Himself is proclaiming to you:

You, My children on earth, have to make an effort to treat each other with love .... You have chosen this stay on earth in the knowledge of what you are lacking; you have many opportunities to combat your weaknesses and mistakes, yet you must also have the good will to make use of the possibilities offered and, through constant self-restraint, grow stronger and overcome your mistakes. Bear in mind, My children, with how much patience I have to overlook your weaknesses again and again, and yet My love for you does not diminish .... Consider how much more reason I would have to become impatient, and how I, nevertheless, in utmost patience and mercy, embrace My children again and lovingly forgive them when they have trespassed .... consider that My life on earth demanded an abundance of patience towards sinful humanity, which nevertheless did not recognise My love and repaid all the good I did for people with ingratitude, and finally made Me suffer so indescribably ....

How much did they humiliate Me and devised all sorts of torments and, without any blame, handed Me over to be crucified .... And I patiently shouldered even this most bitter injustice and nevertheless did not withdraw My mercy from those who wronged Me .... I implored the Father in heaven to forgive them their sins and did not turn away from humanity but tried to win them over with patience and love and thereby bring them redemption. And therefore you should also practise the virtue of self-denial, one should live for the other and only ever endeavour to ease each other's suffering, so that you will become perfect and will not have lived your earthly life in vain. And sacrifice all your worries and pains to Me, and you will become as gentle as doves and communicate with each other patiently and with love, and inner calm will enter your hearts .... and I will help you if you are in danger of losing yourselves.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"Behold, I am with you always ...."

B.D. 1004 from July 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

"Behold, I am with you always ...." These words shall be your comfort and confidence at all times. I will not abandon My own if only they desire Me, and I will help you bear all suffering if only you trust Me with faith. I will certainly make you bear your suffering, but only so that you remember Me and call upon Me for help in all adversity. For I want to strengthen your faith, I want you to let your faith become that strength that no earthly suffering can make you anxious and despondent anymore. You are still despondent and threaten to collapse under the oppositions I send you, but when these can no longer harm you, when nothing can make you waver in your faith in My help, you have reached that degree of strength of faith that I can work through you. Behold, how much easier life will be for you when you no longer have to pay attention to the daily oppositions and no longer have to worry about daily life. To be a true child of its father in heaven also requires complete trust that it will be protected in every adversity and danger, and thus I want to know My children standing in faith and trust in God .... I want them to always and constantly seek Me, that they approach Me fearlessly and in full faith in order to be able to fulfil their requests at any time .... They should always turn their hearts to Me and never become of little faith, and My love will take notice of their need and deliver them from it. What an indescribable abundance of grace is therefore always at your disposal if I promise you My help when you desire it .... And it is only necessary that you believe and ask .... I will not abandon you, for I know of all the suffering on earth and am willing to help wherever you believingly desire it. You alone create all difficulties for yourselves; if you are distant from Me in your heart, I have to direct your thoughts to Me, and that through hardship and suffering. But if you carry Me in your heart, you are also secure in My heart, and what you are then still obliged to carry only serves your own salvation .... One day you will thank Me when you realize why you were given this .... Yet you cannot grasp it on earth and should therefore only take up the little cross without grumbling and complaining and carry it humbly for My sake. The body passes away and with it earthly pain .... But you should fear for your soul, whose suffering is far greater if the body is spared suffering on earth. I love all My little children and do not want them to suffer throughout eternal times, yet this would be your fate if I kept earthly suffering away from you, which is truly not the hardest thing to bear. And if I promise you My presence, then trust Me and do not become faint-hearted. He who imposes suffering on you can also take it away from you, and He will truly not let you call in vain if you ask Him from the bottom of your heart ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Knowledge from God endures for all eternity .... participation of souls in teaching ....

B.D. 1005 from July 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

You should remain aware of the fact that the source of all knowledge is only the eternal deity and that, in order to be correctly instructed, you must turn to Him Himself .... And if you seek the source of wisdom elsewhere, you will never find it. Therefore, he who is taught by God will have the highest knowledge, whereas all knowledge of other origins is fragmentary and incomplete, for the latter will not survive bodily death, whereas the former will endure for all eternity. If you hear the call from above you have every guarantee that you have found the core of truth .... And you may confidently build on these fundamental truths, for you must, after all, as taught by God, stand in the truth. Yet where should the human being get the guarantee for the truth of his knowledge if it was merely acquired through human intellect or human teaching .... The father is love, the son is wisdom .... Thus divine love always imparts divine wisdom to His child, for the father, as wisdom Himself, wants to make this known to those who are of Him .... Everything the father has He wants to give to His child, thus also the eternal truth, which is so extremely valuable to receive .... An earthly child with such knowledge is able to exert an unspeakably beneficial influence on many creatures, both on earth and in the beyond. It is able to give still and still .... Whoever has a desire for spiritual knowledge can be considered by the spiritual-gift-receiving earth child. Souls in the beyond are even more likely to make use of such an opportunity to acquire knowledge than people on earth, who often pass by the grace offered to them completely indifferently. They are unspeakably happy to be able to attend regular teachings and therefore draw valuable spiritual knowledge without ceasing and in turn teach those souls who are incapable of forming a spiritual picture of the meaning and purpose of such teachings. The souls also recognize the great grace granted to them that they can participate in this teaching, for once the being has recognized God's wisdom its whole endeavour is only directed towards this .... It wants to acquire all knowledge in order to ascend by utilizing its knowledge again in order to help the other souls to ascend as well. And only by continuing to follow the lectures from above to earth does the being in the beyond enrich itself with this knowledge, which facilitates its ascent upwards. People on earth, however, so often carelessly ignore what could offer them the greatest advantage in the beyond .... They listen to the explanations of earthly teachers and reject the divine gifts .... And their knowledge will therefore be inadequate and not worthy of eternity, for the divine mission is supreme and inviolable .... and happy is he who is allowed to receive it from the father's hand ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The soul chooses its own whereabouts ....

B.D. 1006 from July 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The soul has chosen its stay in the flesh for itself and therefore the objection that the human being is forced to be what he is on earth is unfounded. The being has even received an exact description of earth life beforehand, the path on earth has been presented to it, likewise also the degree of maturity which can be reached in this very life, and the being has therefore put on the body of flesh in fullest agreement and has consciously become that to which it has previously given its consent. If the earthly life does not bring him maturity through his own fault, then this is merely due to the will or rather unwillingness of the human being who does not utilize life on earth in the way it can be utilized. Anyone who neglects to be lovingly active on earth has lived his life in vain, and this activity in love is precisely what is needed to reach the state of perfection. And if the soul considers that the embodiment as a human being imposes all kinds of fetters on it, if it considers that opportunities are offered everywhere to loosen these fetters and to be able to reach a truly high degree of maturity in a short time, then the realization of the missed life is so unspeakably bitter for it that remorse for the missed opportunity means true hell for it .... And all spiritual strength cannot succeed in sparing the soul this state of remorse, and therefore it will still powerfully influence the soul during its earthly existence .... and tries to influence a misguided being spiritually as well as physically and to awaken the soul's sense of responsibility so that it will recognize its task on earth and pay more attention to its work of liberation. Once the human being has imagined that only his will liberates him from his fetters, but that otherwise the wrong will also endangers the soul's later life, then he no longer lives thoughtlessly into the day but seeks to gain spiritual advantages for himself, and at the same time he uses all opportunities to practice love for his neighbour, for the soul senses its real task precisely in this, moreover it also likes to dwell in the spheres where it does not feel the pressure of the body. It has certainly taken life upon itself with the intention to use it in order to reach perfection, but the wrong thinking in earthly life mostly comes from the fact that the soul does not reach this state quickly enough and therefore holds itself harmless on earth, i.e. it regards the illusory goods as the right good and misjudges the true purpose on earth, but then seeks the supposed guilt in an earthly life which is extraordinarily burdensome for it, while it creates this burdensome state for itself. A right life on earth that is pleasing to God in active neighbourly love will allow the human being to rise above himself in such a way that he will no longer be aware of the seemingly miserable circumstances and thus the self-chosen life in the flesh will bring him the fullest redemption ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Proof of what man believes ....

B.D. 1007 from July 15th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The worldly mind is not enough to provide complete proof of what your heart tells you to believe. The voice of the heart announces the fullest truth to the person who respects it .... But where the intellect is consulted, which considers all pros and cons, the voice of the heart is not heeded, and now a clear solution is not found through sharp, rational thinking, but so many contradictions will arise and confuse human thinking, which must be the inevitable consequence because man lacks faith .... For he who believes does not ponder .... he who trusts the divine word, which is expressed through the voice of the heart, his heart knows no doubts and does not question and enquire about things which his intellect can never fathom, but he accepts what is offered to him in the form of spiritual gifts, tangible in his heart, without doubt .... For who on earth would want to be able to provide proof to the contrary by virtue of all intellectual thinking .... even the wisest researchers cannot substantiate their research as soon as it concerns processes outside of earthly life. Nor will they succeed in proving that what man believes about God, His creation and God's direct and indirect influence on humanity is error. The more seriously the believer deals with such problems, the more he penetrates them .... On the other hand, man's thinking becomes more and more confused the more his intellect alone is active in solving such a problem. As a result, many different views arise .... while those willing to believe will always find themselves in the same truth, as only this one truth is conveyed through the voice of the heart. Those who seek God through faith will also find Him, but those who seek Him by way of the intellect are still so far from Him, for these are mere worldlings who pay no attention to their spirit, and the light of truth does not shine for them, but darkness, the night of the spirit, surrounds them, and thus he who remains in darkness cannot speak of light .... nor can he describe the light-filled path if he has not travelled it himself. And therefore the worldly researcher cannot give enlightenment in an area which he does not know, and even less can he deny something for which full knowledge of it is a prerequisite. And therefore it is not up to the earthly researcher to transfer the results to the spiritual realm and thus destroy childlike faith with them .... For the lord reserves divine wisdom for those who approach Him in humble childlike faith ....

Amen

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Saturn ....

B.D. 1008 from July 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Worldly scholars will struggle in vain to obtain a clear picture of the inner structure of extraterrestrial works of Creation. It is not enough to establish the numerical size ratio of other planets in comparison to Earth, nor is the intention of establishing the sun’s influence on these planets and the measurement of luminosity sufficient .... Rather, the research of these planets requires people with enormous knowledge, and such knowledge can only be acquired by spiritual means. No connection exists between Earth and other planets, and no such connection will ever be established even if eternities pass by. On the other hand, however, spiritually, no limitations exist which separate one planet from another. The vast space between two planets does not prevent spiritual beings from communicating with each other and exchanging information about the world they inhabit and its structure. Providing a clear picture of the most related planet to Earth, Saturn, is the task of one of the elevated spiritual beings inhabiting it by giving you humans on Earth a description which offers an undeniable explanation to a person desiring such information. As yet no mortal has succeeded in establishing the dimensions of this planet, for it is not possible to calculate its size because people possess no criterion for the circumference of Saturn. It goes beyond all earthly estimates and is almost an infinite concept for you humans. The basic material of this planet is not the same as that of Earth either .... it consists of transparent, brightly sparkling metal with an inconceivable luminosity. The state of all beings within the vicinity of this radiant matter is in harmony with this brilliant light .... They are exceedingly sensitive to all spiritual currents and are relatively far advanced spiritual beings which, however, did not reach their state of light through conscious striving but are highly educated through God’s will. The task of these beings includes taking care of the spirits on earth. Like on earth, they also live a similar physical life, except that the size ratio of the external shells they occupy is humanly incomprehensible, but accordingly their spiritual power is indescribably effective. Nevertheless, the beings also have to fulfil a function and this is in harmony with their respective embodiment, for these beings also exist in various external shapes on the planet’s surface, but their ability to change far surpasses that on earth, insofar as that they are not animating some external shape as imperfect spiritual beings, but that they can, as it were, change their shell at any time so as to be able to accomplish their set task better and easier in a different shell. Consequently, Saturn shelters living beings, nevertheless they possess a certain degree of maturity or they would not be suitable for this planet since the abundance of light presupposes a specific receptivity to light. These beings are difficult to describe to people on earth because certain laws need to be taken into account which are unknown to people on earth. It would indeed be possible to portray them to you, albeit only in a metaphorical way which illustrates the beings’ activity. And this activity is, in a way, just as necessary for people on earth, for the beings have the task of constantly animating the entire flora, nevertheless, the correlation of this cannot be fully understood by you as yet. Amongst each other, the beings lead a similar life as on earth, in total harmony and spiritual unity, so their dwellings are accordingly and magnificent creations of their own intelligence shaped the surface of the planet into an exceedingly charming abode. Creation consists of countless stars and yet each one differs from the other both in its surface arrangement as well as in the living conditions of its inhabiting beings .... In the same way their basic materials are always of a different kind too .... yet all these creations are governed and directed by one Deity according to His will. And thus God provides countless opportunities for a being so that it can receive and likewise distribute bliss for eternity through lively activity in accordance with its perfection.

Amen

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Information of the teaching spirit beings from higher light beings necessary ....

B.D. 1009 from July 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

A particularly important task of the spiritual being consists of making contact with exceptionally highly developed spiritual beings at certain intervals in order to receive information from them about the wisely foreseen plans of divine activity. This is necessary so that the spiritual world endeavours to exert its influence on people in an appropriate way, and thus all teaching spiritual beings have to be well-informed and receive all relevant information as long as they are active as teachers themselves but are not yet in fullest knowledge as most perfect beings. Teaching activity does indeed require extremely extensive knowledge, but this only encompasses all already existing divine work of creation and the spiritual task of all beings .... Yet what the lord decides in His wisdom in order to shape His earthly children's fate in eternity into an exceedingly glorious one is still hidden from these spiritual beings and will be conveyed to the former in due course through the beings of light dwelling in the highest spheres, and this impartation is both exceedingly successful in itself as well as unspeakably blissful for the being in the beyond, for with this impartation the receiving being simultaneously receives light and strength within itself, and this is again a step upwards, a transition into a higher sphere. And his teaching ministry will become increasingly more versatile from the start, and the receiving earthly child as well as the souls in the beyond willing to receive it will also feel this increased spiritual strength .... This current is constantly passed on to all beings coming into closer contact with the receiving earth child, both on earth and in the beyond. This spiritual exchange has to take place from time to time, after all, the teacher as well as the instructed (being) constantly receive thoughts which are connected with the coming world events, and this knowledge again brings successes to light in a spiritual relationship, for anyone who strives towards the spiritual then only looks at every event with a spiritual eye and visibly recognizes the divine guidance ....

Amen

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Changes in creation .... disasters needed ....

B.D. 1010 from July 18th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

In infinitely long times many a change has taken place in the whole of creation. For the original form was banished spiritual substance which, however, detached itself from this form in the course of the millennia, thus God's work of creation also had to constantly change in order to bring the spiritual substance the release from the form .... This reshaping of the originally created again has the consequence that a spiritual work can already be recognized from it, because life is everything that changes .... but there is nothing in the universe that retains its form in an unchanged way; it can certainly remain in the same form for thousands of years, but this will never remain a permanent state. Everything in the universe must change, for only in this way does it fulfil the purpose of providing a home for the spiritual, which is to form itself upwards. And if now all these creations have the purpose to be carriers of spiritual substances, then inevitably all destruction of form must have a favourable effect on the spiritual that enlivens it .... it must be the ultimate purpose of matter to be dissolved in order to liberate the spiritual within itself. Thus every apparent work of destruction will only be welcome in a spiritual sense, even though it entails the greatest earthly disadvantage. And after every destruction of any matter the spiritual must escape from it and thus join the people on earth in an unbound state or else take up residence in the new .... i.e. earthly shell which serves the soul's progress .... earthly shell to which he is entitled. And therefore every new emergence in nature will bring countless spiritual beings to maturity, and especially the smallest, most inconspicuous creations have to fulfil tasks which are not expected of them .... It is generally said that the God of love cannot be so cruel as to abandon whole stretches of land to destruction .... yet these people completely lack the sense for the fact that countless beings thank their creator for every such catastrophe which releases countless spiritual beings from their long banished state, and that the whole of creation only exists for the purpose that these beings have continued opportunities to stay and that such often arise through destruction of all kinds .... that therefore all catastrophes or other natural events which result in the destruction of the earth's surface are welcomed with immense joy by the spiritual beings who have been in captivity for a long time and who now have to start and live through a new epoch of their life on earth ....

Amen

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Inventions .... forces of nature .... faith ....

B.D. 1011 from July 19th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

In the age of modern technology, the forces of nature will make a particularly noticeable appearance, as the aim is to prove to people that all earthly ability and knowledge is of no use if the will of God is not respected. The more a person is convinced of himself and his abilities, the more likely he is to deny divine power and his own dependence on it. And the more necessary it is then that the divine power expresses itself. The human being's development necessitates all kinds of facilities to which the divine creator gives His blessing if they arise for the benefit and piety of all humanity .... And all spirit, which is expressed in technical inventions, seeks to have a favourable effect on humanity in order to facilitate its striving for the heights, and thus to a certain extent places itself at the service of humanity. However, it is unexplored forces that provide support where man becomes arrogant. And it is precisely these forces that assert themselves in unforeseen natural disasters .... no matter what kind. Wherever man believes that he has found infallible proof that he can utilize some natural force and banish it by his own efforts, an unjustified natural force comes into play and renders previous experience invalid. Man is given the ability by God to utilize the power from God, but always in the same proportion as he relates himself to God. And that person who recognizes God Himself in all natural power will be able to show undreamt-of success .... who, as it were, tackles all work with God that is for the good of humanity and extends to inventions of all kinds. His research and attempts will be crowned with success, and the divine power will, as it were, overflow into such inventions, while the person who believes to draw from himself and is aware of his extraordinary power (will certainly also request the power from God and will not withhold it from him, but he) will to a certain extent take possession of it unlawfully because he presumes to exclude divinity and thus does not subordinate himself to the divine will .... A counter-current will soon make itself felt there. Obstacles upon obstacles will stand in the way of the person working without divine assistance and he will not be able to master them as he relies on himself and does not ask for help .... And these obstacles will again be due to forces of nature, because everything that acts contrary to divine order will, as it were, also have to bear the consequences of this. And thus, despite overcoming many technical difficulties, the human being will always be backward as long as he does not see in the reign of the natural elements proof that all forces in nature are subject to a lord and creator and that his endeavours will therefore only be successful when he himself likewise fits into the divine order and he is only willing to carry out what corresponds to God's will ....

Amen

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Sun ....

B.D. 1012 from July 20th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The sun draws its light and luminosity from love .... understand this well .... God is love and God feeds everything that exists with His power of love, including the countless suns that orbit the universe. Let the power of these suns be explained to you: It is of the utmost importance to know with what tremendous speed all the world's bodies fly through the universe. Friction creates an extraordinary atmosphere precisely where certain resistances are noticeable, because friction generates heat and therefore an isolated body does not necessarily need to radiate this heat. It is therefore only necessary for an exceptionally moving body to release certain degrees of heat, and the sun could therefore just as well be a cold mass, but the earth would still generate so much heat through its own speed in its revolutions that the demand would be completely covered. Now, however, an explanation must be mentally inserted which develops a completely different picture. The effects of the sun's rays on the earth are merely due to the fact that divine strength flows uninterruptedly through them onto the earth and its inhabitants, that therefore what you see as sunbeams are countless carriers of strength which have their origin with God as the eternal spirit of love and influence everything on earth and thus nourish it with gifts of love offered by the eternal deity Himself. Every ray of sunlight carries countless small and tiny microbes, which are again unspeakably vital for the existence of living beings on earth. Such carriers of light and power must continuously establish the connection between the eternal deity and its beings, and contact must therefore be and remain established if the being is to be constantly nourished by this power, and this is therefore the purpose of the sun with its rays ....

Amen

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Sun ....

B.D. 1013 from July 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 19

What brings about this extraordinary luminosity? .... What is the connection between the forces that simultaneously ignite undreamt-of physical and spiritual effects and ignite an extraordinary light and thus remain inimitable in every respect? .... How do the spiritual currents relate to each other, and what visible or earthly explainable natural force underlies this luminosity? .... These are all questions that penetrate so deeply into spiritual knowledge that the human intellect is truly too small to answer them for itself. Only where purely spiritual knowledge is striven for at the same time can clarification be given, for only in the working of the spiritual forces lies the reason for this miracle of creation. Incomparably sublime is the awareness that man has, as it were, a right to be informed about it, that he may and also should fill in every gap in his knowledge and that consequently no limits are set for him if he is interested in any questions concerning creation. Especially the sun with its radiant effect is indisputably the greatest riddle in nature for men, and yet they desire little or not at all the instructions which are offered to them from above and which in turn alone can be authoritative, because only the deity Himself can explain in detail and comprehensibly something which has its origin infinitely far away from earth. The neutral combination of two elements results in a new substance .... and this law underlies everything. The union of unexplored forces, on the other hand, produces certain frictions, because each force wants to express itself and displace the other. Where such friction arises, the body at the centre, whether solid or not, must ignite, i.e. rebel against the force oppressing it. Consequently, every appearance of light is a resistance of one force to the second force that wants to express itself. And it is the same with every spiritual current of power ....

Amen

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Sun ....

B.D. 1014 from July 21st 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Regulated instruction can only take place if, in addition to his willingness to receive, the person also feels a certain joy at being allowed to constantly draw from the source of all wisdom .... The desire for truth has a favourable effect insofar as a person's heart is now most willingly open to receive the gift intended for him. Everything spiritual has the greatest interest in the explanations that your teacher presents to you, and so continue:

(The effect of the sun's rays) The luminous flux in an electrical installation must be continuously supplemented the more is spent .... however, it is first of all a condition that both external and hidden obstacles that could interrupt the circuit are removed, because the slightest obstacle would be tantamount to stalling and thus endangering the respective receiving device .... Likewise, the supply line to earth must be free of obstacles of any kind, because disregarding this condition could have an extremely damaging effect on everything in this circuit. God's creation is so skilfully constructed that all obstacles evaporate when the sun appears as a carrier of light. It is precisely the flight of everything that could impair the effect of the rays that again testifies to the omnipotence of divine activity, for the divine will must naturally banish everything that could seriously endanger the earth and its inhabitants. According to human judgement the effect of the sun's rays on the earth is a result of the strenuous activity of all spiritual beings which tries to influence human thinking .... Here again it is about the power of the stronger, because this pressurizes the underlying power. It will therefore hardly be possible to explain the emergence of the sun's rays in any other way than that spiritual beings with infinite strength from God approach the earth in the greatest multitude and now, as it were, use themselves in order to prevent an interruption of the strength from God, and thus a constant activity through these spiritual beings must in turn result in the fact that the divine or spiritual strength does not come to a standstill for a moment in earthly existence and thus the uninterrupted irradiation of the earth by the sun finds its explanation in this ....

Amen

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Sun ....

B.D. 1015 from July 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

It is not uncommon for assumptions to lead to false conclusions, and science has also been incredibly wrong when it assumes that there is some kind of glowing mass at the centre of the sun. After all, the fireball would slowly consume itself and the sun would lose light and luminosity. But this has not been the case for ages and will not be the case for ages to come. By comparison, a hearth of fire can only radiate heat for as long as it contains embers, but every ember must eventually die out unless it is nourished, i.e. supplied with substances that re-ignite and thus increase the embers. Applied to the sun, this incomprehensibly large world body would therefore either have to become constantly smaller, or it would have to attract other world bodies to itself, which would then become one with it, as it were, and thus be constant nutrients for the light- and heat-giving source of fire. But the divine work of creation truly does not need such purely factual arguments .... The effect of the sun's rays can be traced back to completely different laws .... The power of God Himself shines without any external influence .... It is the power of God's light in itself, this power is transmitted daily and hourly without interruption into the universe, received by countless spirit bearers and transmitted again by every being, visible and invisible. And therefore you directly receive the life energy from God in the sun's rays .... hence the sun has to distribute this energy for every living being to thrive, and this happens in a way which is completely alien and incomprehensible to human concepts as long as people attach too little value to the spiritual in itself, for the sun's rays are a purely spiritual process which, however, is also outwardly visible to people .... While everything else of a spiritual nature is hidden from them or earthly enveloped, the activity of the mature spiritual world expresses itself here in a way that is visible to people but not recognized as such. An unrestrained unfolding of its power, which however is likewise opposed by spiritual things, creates certain frictions, and everything that is supposed to be repressed is aroused and in a way ignited, and since the spiritual power absolutely wants to come to earth, this stream of light and fire must also be noticeable on earth and thus express itself as a bundle of rays from above. And this process can never come to an end as long as unredeemed spiritual substances still somehow enliven the universe, for the mature spiritual substances will not shy away from any resistance and, by overcoming this resistance, will try to reach the place where spiritual strength is needed by the beings .... Thus the sun will shine until all spiritual beings are redeemed ....

Amen

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Faith and love are the condition for realization and knowledge ....

B.D. 1016 from July 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Whoever lives in faith and love will soon recognize the divine greatness, wisdom and omnipotence. And whoever prays to the father of all in spirit and in truth, his insight and comprehension will increase and he will now see and understand all things more than ever. By believing and loving, he will fulfil the divine commandments and request divine strength through prayer, and it will be granted to him immediately. The living source of knowledge opens up to him, and now divine wisdom flows into his heart and revitalizes his soul and spirit. On the other hand, it is a lost endeavour to try to acquire knowledge if man eliminates love and faith from his life and is unable to entrust himself in prayer to the creator of heaven and earth in his distress. His spirit is, from an earthly point of view, far more advanced, but only according to human judgement, where knowledge is, as it were, made dependent on intellectual thinking .... Yet this person knows nothing, and his ability and supposed knowledge only extends to things which appear important to people in earthly life but which are of no value for life in eternity. And this person certainly lives in abundance on earth and attributes this to his intelligence and strength .... But he thereby only prepares himself a life of comfort on this earth and cannot take over anything of his possessions when his earthly life is over .... And his earthly wealth will be replaced by spiritual poverty. Therefore hear again the call from above: Be believing and united in love .... do not deprive yourselves of the knowledge imparted to you by the lord Himself but accept His divine word with profound faith .... And you will go through earthly life strengthened, depart easily and one day stand in spiritual wealth in eternity. And seek to penetrate into the secrets of creation, and that on the way of the heart through love .... Everything is ready for you, you may enrich your knowledge still and still, but you have to put faith in God before all thinking and acting, you have to seek Him through love and ask for His grace and love through heartfelt prayer .... and you will stand in the midst of knowledge ....

Amen

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World conflagration .... prophecies ....

B.D. 1017 from July 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The fire of the world will be kindled, and unutterable distress will come upon men. Thus it is written in the prophecies concerning the coming times. And the words of the lord will be fulfilled, for He saw the coming time and with it the apostasy from God .... He sent many warnings to mankind and yet they were not heard. The light is almost extinguished and the power of the adversary is great, which is why the father in heaven is no longer respected. And in order to control this adversity, people's fate on earth will have to be made unbearable and therefore a hard time will come upon the earth and the word of God will also be hotly disputed in the midst of battling fighters .... All those to whom the great suffering brought the right realization will desire it in the greatest tribulation, but those who expect earthly advantage from the battle of the nations against each other will reject it. Those to whom adversity has brought the realization of divine activity will be blessed, for the great danger they were in is over and now nothing can frighten them anymore that is harmful to the body .... His soul has found the right path that leads out of all adversity. But without resistance, the divine word will rarely find its way into the hearts of mankind .... Everywhere there will be a difficult battle ahead, and the fighters for God will have to stand firm and not waver and speak an open word to everyone undaunted and courageously. For the lord has made mention of this time .... He has announced all suffering and predicted all accompanying phenomena, and therefore the time has come when worldly events must be given free rein by the creator, for humanity only listens to the sound of the world and not to the divine voice which calls for repentance before it is too late.

Amen

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Twitching lightning .... distress and gloom .... light morning ....

B.D. 1018 from July 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The sky covers itself and the sun no longer wants to give its light, and all forces of nature unite to work together against humanity, which no longer recognizes its God and creator. And irrevocably a heavy pressure is laid upon them, for God's love takes pity on His children and He must let the harshest chastisement pass over them if they are not all to be irretrievably lost. The will of man is different from the will of God .... Man ridicules and mocks every teaching that points upwards, and the greed for possessions has become so great that such must necessarily be destroyed .... And unkindness among people has reached its highest development, not one stands for but against the other, and the spiritual misery of the individual cannot be controlled in any other way than through an adversity which is so unspeakably great that people will help each other who still have a little spark of love in them .... And so the lord sends one adversity after another upon the earth and its inhabitants .... He will cause lightning to flash in the darkness of souls so that they will look around them in fear and plead for help .... And everyone will be allowed to experience the dawning morning in radiant light if he wants to escape the darkness .... And so the world has now become a source of fire in many places, and spiritual hardship and tribulation were the cause of the most severe trials for the children of the earth .... But likewise the light will come from above, and in the same measure as people accept it, all heaviness of the time will be taken from them, for the father only requires the soul, the free will of His children, and He will henceforth give them His peace .... Therefore seek the light of truth, remain in faith and love .... and all the difficulties of the coming time will only touch you like a shadow, for He Who gave you life can also save you from all adversity if you ask Him for it with a believing heart ....

Amen

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Creature .... work of creation .... man ....

B.D. 1019 from July 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The life course of all creatures requires a complete detachment from the solid form. Only that which is free can follow the path prescribed to it as an individual being in nature, apparently vegetating in isolation in creation until it has gone through all the stages of embodiment and has travelled the path on earth. An ever-repeating separation from the respective outer form must take place in order to have completely overcome this very form. Each new form means a struggle for the being and finally the defeat of the form through separation from it. A continuous remodelling of the outer shell can only be possible in this way, and everything that lives on earth, in the air and in the water gives up the shell again and again for its own further development. Consequently, beings are capable of change as long as they are immature, i.e. unfinished, and it is extremely wisely arranged by the eternal creator that a constant change takes place in natural life .... that the emergence and passing away of every living being is ensured and that the earth's surface offers shelter to countless small creatures without interruption, which are in a constant state of transformation. It would be incomprehensible to man if the diversity and also the multiplicity were to be documented numerically .... Countless creations and variations that are inestimable to human terms bear witness to the wisdom and omnipotence of the creator. Man can be called infinitely small and tiny compared to the glory and greatness of the work of creation, and yet he himself is at the centre of this creation. He is the goal of all creation .... he has passed through all creation and contains all works of creation in the smallest reproduction within himself, and for the sake of man, i.e. his soul, the whole work of creation has come into being, for man is to become a child of God, the image of the divine father, and thus the purpose of the work of creation is an exceedingly mighty one and man, standing in the midst of the work of creation, is to a certain extent the most glorious work of God's creation, and in turn every creature serves the soul, which is imperishable, for its one-time perfection ....

Amen

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Love .... grace .... word .... comforting words of the father ....

B.D. 1020 from July 23rd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The most intimate contact with the heavenly father is being absorbed in love .... Surrounded by divine grace, the path to eternal life is thus passable, for the father Himself leads His child and the latter confidently places itself under His protection. And again it is the word He gives to His own which proclaims His infinite love .... so that they will not be abandoned and walk alone on earth, He is in the midst of them in the word, for the word is the lord Himself .... The word is His love, His grace and the constant proof of His concern for the children of earth .... Love always makes Him remember His own, He turns His grace towards them and He brings Himself very close to people through His word. And if you humans now feel the closeness of the divine lord, if you feel cared for by His love and receive His grace daily and hourly, then thank Him sincerely for His love and watch and pray .... that it may remain with you and that you may not anger and grieve the father .... that you may not sin against this divine love, which gives you the most precious .... Himself in the word ....

He who teaches you, My child, has My instruction and moulds every gift according to your understanding and your will to love .... but what you receive shall increase your love for Me and mould you according to My will, for I want to take abode in your heart and make you My fighter .... I want to give your soul the strength to offer resistance to every danger that approaches you .... I will and it will be .... And the battle for faith will spur you on to increased activity, and standing in the light you will no longer pay attention to danger but only act according to My will. And the fire of My love will take hold of you and ignite your heart .... And all fear of weakness of faith will be overcome, for My child's desire for Me and My love is, after all, its will to serve Me with every step .... And so I take this will of yours and therefore also your heart, for I leave no prayer unanswered which is only for the union with Me .... For I love you, My children, beyond all measure ....

Amen

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Togetherness in love .... Easy earthly path ....

B.D. 1021 from July 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The longest path on earth is not difficult to travel if the human being doesn't have to cover it alone, for all distress and trouble are easier carried as a twosome. A lonely wanderer bears all burdens and troubles by himself, he has no loving heart to speak to, no one to lift him up if he is in danger of breaking down, and no one whom he, in turn, can reassure and support in difficult times. And many an earthly wanderer's fate consists of the fact that they always and forever walk alone even though they are surrounded by countless people. They exclude themselves from the world and reject all consolation and active help. And thus they have to cover an arduous, very long earthly path in constant isolation. Natural law connects people, natural law requires togetherness since it is, after all, the foundation of continued existence for creation and its living beings.

Everything in the human being longs for its alter ego, the human being naturally feels the instinct to bond with a similarly natured person, in every human heart dwells love which wants to express itself towards this other self, and therefore the union between a man and a woman is an irrevocable law ordained by the divine Father Himself. The foundation for all unions, however, shall be profound love, each one shall endeavour from the bottom of his heart to serve the other, to treat him with love and to start a relationship which utterly complies with divine will. Then God's blessing will also rest on such a union, travelling the path through earthly life will be easier for both because their love for each other will help them carry all difficulties, and this love also guarantees that the Father is likewise present where pure love unites two people. For the eternal Deity's activity will be noticeable there, pure love will refine people and turn their eyes towards heaven, they will recognise God, the Lord, by virtue of their inherently active love which is divine after all, and from this realisation they will draw the strength to overcome all difficulties in life .... They are walking with God at the same time .... in blissful togetherness they have become aware of the fact that God has to be present where love exists, and this realisation makes them blissfully happy, since then the human being will know that he is safe under the Father's loyal guard ....

Amen

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Defender of the faith .... power of faith ....

B.D. 1022 from July 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The lord chooses those who are to proclaim Him to the whole world, and He gives them His instructions and trains them to be true warriors for His name and His word. And so you too have been given the task of training yourself so that you can stand up for the lord if necessary. In the coming time only one thing is necessary .... to be faithful to the lord and saviour and to fight for the faith .... Then the divine saviour will take everything else under His care, and none of His fighters will be harmed by offering themselves for service to the divine lord and master. However, anyone who wavers or completely abandons his faith for the sake of vile worldly advantage will also have to endure a hard struggle in life and will not be able to escape it despite his outward well-being, for he gave up the one Who is in control of the individual's life, and thus he will have to bitterly atone for his unfaithfulness to his creator. True faith is still an extraordinarily powerful weapon in the battle against all adversities of life .... And even if people have already strayed far from faith, they will still feel its power and strength and recognize that he who turns to the lord in faith is under divine protection, but that he who goes his way on earth without faith is helpless and abandoned. And so children of the earth who are willing to believe, devoted to God and ready to serve are well instructed so that they should inform people who are erring or searching, so that they should convey God's word to them, awaken or strengthen their faith and teach them about love, which alone leads a person upwards. And those whom the lord now mentions should diligently fulfil their task, they should remain in constant contact with the lord, they should be the intermediaries, receive the divine truth from His hand and pass it on to those who are longing .... and instruct the erring ones correctly so that they recognize their error and find their way back to the right faith. And this is why you, who want to serve the lord, are also admonished not to become lukewarm but to strive eagerly to increase your knowledge and to remain spiritually equal to the task, to instruct those who ask you for advice and help with all love and patience and to remain in constant prayer for strength of will and perseverance .... This task must be the most important thing for you on earth, which you put before everything else, and you must not tire of gathering spiritual possessions, for only when you possess yourselves will you also be able to give, and then your perseverance will bear ripe fruit and be a blessing for you and your fellow human beings .... for those who serve the lord will receive their reward one day in eternity ....

Amen

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What is grace ....

B.D. 1023 from July 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Desire divine grace and life will bring you fulfilment, for you will have matured in soul and spirit and will not have lived earthly life in vain. And those who are in the grace of God are to be called incomparably rich, even though their earthly life is rich in privations. For what they lack for the well-being of the body is often offered to them for the soul. It is unspeakably valuable to know that one is under divine protection, and whoever lives in grace is protected by the lord from every danger to his soul, and every gift of grace increases the person's spiritual capacity and brings the soul closer to its goal, the union with its spirit from God. How unspeakably poor, on the other hand, is the person who believes he can manage without divine grace; his life is empty in spiritual terms and he always walks on level ground but never ascends. For divine grace is the epitome of divine guidance .... He who asks for grace will not be left without it, and to receive divine grace means to be relieved of all personal responsibility, for the lord Himself takes His earthly child by the hand and leads it because it has confessed its will to Him and entrusted itself to Him .... "Take me and protect me, I want nothing other than to be led by You ....", so your prayer shall resound in the spirit .... And the father in heaven will not let His child walk alone from now on. He will receive all strength, for this is the lord's grace, that He gives him what he lacks .... right realization, strong will and strength to carry out everything He asks of His earthly child. Thus, anyone who avails himself of grace will also be able to fulfil what is demanded of him, i.e. the body will take the soul's desire into account and this will no longer be directed towards earthly possessions and well-being but solely and exclusively towards its union with the divine spirit. And this is the effect of grace which everyone can observe in himself who implores the father in heaven for grace in fervent prayer. Grace is everything that helps you spiritually .... grace is every thought which is imparted to you and which points you upwards .... grace is every experience that touches you spiritually .... grace is the union of spiritually related people .... and grace is every word that reaches you from above .... Everything that helps you to separate yourselves from the world is divine favour, and you are to ask for it without ceasing, for it is at your disposal unmeasured, but your will must itself be directed towards it, and your heart must childlike humbly approach the father in heaven for it, then you will still achieve great things on earth, and your end will be a happy one ....

Amen

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Miracles of faith and the power of prayer ....

B.D. 1024 from July 25th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

And you will have to testify to the world that the power of God works through you. You will test this power by their unbelief, and they will be astonished by it, but it must be proven to people that he who has deep faith has the power .... they must be shown the miracle of the strength of faith and the power of prayer .... Suffering will be banished by virtue of this faith, nature will obey the one who is thus in the service of the eternal deity, and the power from God will express itself towards those who want to command by worldly power to the detriment of the believers. And all this will be necessary for the God-apostates .... Whoever seeks the divinity will see a light in it and follow Christ, i.e. his heart will recognize the truth and follow the path of truth. And it is for this reason that the lord considers His own on earth with such power. And so there will be great astonishment at the unusual activity of people through whom God Himself works. If you are therefore instructed to act according to God's will, then do not resist the divine word, for the lord needs His servants on earth in order to make Himself known to people. Rather, believe firmly and unshakeably and follow the divine saviour's instructions in everything, for only full faithful adherence to the divine will will also trigger the extraordinary power within you. You will accomplish things in this faith that will lift you above yourselves if only you always remain active in the spirit. Do not forget that the lord Himself gives you the task, that He does not demand more of you than you are able to fulfil, and let your will become active so that you carry out what you are instructed to do. And without hesitation unite all of you and work with united strength .... Speak openly and to everyone and listen to their requests if they are also for earthly need, for you are to provide them with the proof that the father in heaven can fulfil every request if it is for the benefit of your soul. Turn every thought in earthly rest to the divine saviour .... He rewards your love and will provide you with extraordinary strength if you keep His word in your mouth and are active in the salvation of erring souls. And all trepidation will fall away from you and you will clearly and comprehensibly announce to people what the father commands you to do, for His will will guide you if you do not resist Him ....

Amen

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Jesus' suffering on the cross ....

B.D. 1025 from July 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The greatness of Jesus' suffering on the cross is not yet fully regocnized by people. The incomprehensible love for His earthly children moved the eternal deity to embody Himself in a human being on earth in order to make the hitherto unbridgeable gulf between the father and the children on earth passable, in order to show these children a path that leads to Him. Now divine love itself has built the bridge through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ .... The lord suffered so unspeakably on the cross as a human being, He tasted all the agonies of the death on the cross, and this out of the deepest love for humanity .... The love of which humanity was bereft moved Him to die for this humanity and thereby bring it redemption from the deepest guilt of sin. Words cannot express the pain and agony that Jesus endured on the cross. He suffered inhuman pain because His body was in complete harmony with everything that was pure and clear, bright and light due to the unification of the soul with the spirit .... And this body was dragged down into the dark realm by dark violence .... Those who laid hands on it were sinful, dark creatures, driven by demons to cruel behaviour. The fear of the pure soul, which had become love through and through, was immeasurably great and the touch of these demons working in hatred was indescribably agonizing .... If only a human being like any other had to endure this death, the work of redemption would not have been of such significance .... But Jesus' agony exceeded that of a human being a thousandfold, since it was not only the body that suffered, but far more the soul, because it stood in the light and was deeply humiliated by the darkness. No human being on earth can appreciate the full extent of the work of redemption; only in the state of light does he grasp the greatness of it and the unspeakable love that moved the son of man to take the most severe suffering upon Himself. And humanity holds His death in such low esteem that it does not shy away from relinquishing its faith in Jesus Christ as saviour of the world. And it is not aware of the immeasurable sin it thereby takes upon itself and how nothing else can offer it a substitute for this humanly greatest work of love which was offered for humanity ....

Amen

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Wrong thinking .... rejection without knowledge of the matter ....

B.D. 1026 from July 26th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Mankind rejects what is supposed to be its greatest blessing and the seriousness of its actions cannot be made clear to it because it consciously defends itself against everything spiritual. Thus it is never possible to enlighten people as to the real reason for their wrong thinking. It is difficult to preach reason to someone who is defensive about something without actual knowledge of it, because he does not want .... Immersing himself in the controversial topic would allow him to make a different judgement .... So anyone who desires enlightenment can be taught accordingly. And therefore it is irresponsible to always remain in the same waters, that is, to not want to deviate from his opinion simply out of ignorance of a matter, and to these the lord calls: Open your ears and your hearts and hear the voice which wants to proclaim the truth to you .... and then examine it .... and if you then still want to reject it, then it is your free will, but you have knowledge and can then consciously take a stand on it, which, however, is not your right as long as you walk along completely blind in spirit. The purely objective solution to something inexplicable is already required in an earthly respect, how much more should you spiritually observe the same and examine everything you want to reject beforehand. The more righteously you are willing to judge, the brighter your spirit will be, it will guide you, first to the recognition of the eternal deity and then prompt you to approach this eternal deity for enlightenment, and your thinking and judgement will then be the right one. First try to understand the divine gift .... Remember the need of the time in a spiritual sense .... and the loving care of the eternal deity, Who is undeniably the creator of all things .... Remember the love with which a father clings to his child on earth and also transfer the same relationship of love to the whole of creation and its creator from eternity .... and you must regocnize that such love cannot and will not leave in spiritual adversity those who have emanated from it. And everything in the universe is the product of divine love; there is nothing that divine love has not created and brought into being .... And if you bear this in mind, you will find it understandable that the father in heaven cannot let His children go astray ....

Amen

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Monastic life? .... (Concerning a previous conversation)

B.D. 1027 from July 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

As soon as the change begins in the life of a woman's soul her ability for spiritual acceptance will increase; and during this time all worldly experiences can have a retrospective effect on the state of the soul. For a period of years certain laws of nature are influencing the human body such that it cannot counteract them without damaging itself .... This compulsion is effectively necessary in order to preserve the human being's sexuality which, in turn, is absolutely essential for procreation. As long as this instinct is clearly expressing itself, as long as the person is always trying to accommodate it, the soul's desire for spiritual nourishment will not voice itself ....

This becomes more understandable as the human being's desire for physical fulfilment of the natural instinct decreases. This very desire automatically ties the human being to earth as if he was chained .... he is unable to ascend spiritually, and therefore the development of his soul becomes doubtful. Consequently, no pure, God-pleasing relationship can ever be established from earth to the spiritual world as long as the body's desire still aims to fulfil its natural instinct, because these two worlds do not harmonise with each other. Although God Himself has placed this natural instinct into the human being he also has the option to resist it voluntarily. However, when people indulge in it without hesitation the soul's ascent will be obstructed .... whereas every resistance to this desire will also loosen the soul's chains .... And therefore it is extraordinary beneficial when the human being fights his craving during that time. Giving way to this instinct is only intended by God for the purpose of creating a new human being, otherwise every person should make an effort to live a pure life since he will provide the soul with undreamt of spiritual advantages.

Once this physical impulse is overcome, i.e. once it has been successfully resisted and thus the fulfilment of bodily lust is no longer banishing the soul in a state of constraint, it is free for its flight of ascent, and it will then be able to make uninhibited contact with the spiritual world. The human being was provided with every opposition in order to overcome it in life, and it is far more commendable to have resisted and defied the world with all its oppositions than to have deliberately avoided it. The Father in heaven knows of everyone's desire and the degree of love for Him, consequently He will also provide His children with trials in order to test their will of resistance, and this should be sufficient for you .... (Break)

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Monastic life? ....

B.D. 1028 from July 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

_(concerning a previous conversation)A natural limit has been set when the strength of resistance is threatening to wane, and then the soul can expect help if it is too weak to stand firm by itself. A woman’s purpose in life mainly involves caring and supportive work, and she receives her strength to do so in the same proportion as she is expressing her love, and thus a sphere of activity exists especially for the woman on earth which offers the soul ample opportunity to mature. There is no need to tightly limit her duties in order to live for the Lord’s pleasure in seclusion on earth. Anyone who wants to work to a greater extent in the service of neighbourly love will also be offered adequate opportunity for it in the outside world. It is therefore not especially beneficial for the soul if a field of duty is imposed on the person which is in fact conscientiously carried out but only as a kind of personal obligation .... under conditions which exclude a refusal or non-compliance of this fulfilment of duty, and therefore the work of loving service does not always correspond to the person’s free will. The will of the person who puts himself into such an obligatory situation may doubtlessly be good and his intention may well be to dedicate his life entirely to the Lord and Saviour, but he does not consider that everyone can utilise and develop his earthly life in the midst of worldly commotion and that he will be offered more than enough opportunities for active neighbourly love ....

Amen

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'Vengeance is Mine ....' Revenge ....

B.D. 1029 from July 29th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

'Vengeance is Mine ....' says the Lord .... and therefore you should not exact vengeance, instead you should make an effort to repay evil with good and not think about how you can revenge yourselves for the wrong done to you. For anyone who suffers injustice and never entertains vengeful thoughts is gentle minded and patient, and his will endeavours to eliminate injustice by doing nothing in order to obtain satisfaction for himself. And this is an immense advancement for the soul .... It is certainly very difficult to be unjustly treated and yet consider the enemy with love, nevertheless, it is extraordinarily beneficial .... The human being should always bear in mind that every feeling of revenge shrouds the soul in darkness, that it can never become light and clear in a human soul where there is still room for thoughts of revenging the evil done by the other person. For such thoughts will inevitably lead to feelings of unkindness and thus spiritual weakness. And the human being cannot be lovingly active if he does not put a stop to such thoughts in him. For animosity is a tribute to the opponent .... Anyone who lives in animosity with his neighbour has already granted the evil power every right over him. Every feeling of hatred and vengeance must be banished from the heart, for it will lead to other unclean thoughts, just as, vice versa, a devout and gentle character is only ever concerned about not doing wrong to anyone, and that all injustice must be left to the responsibility of the divine Lord Himself. For only the Lord can judge the blame of two partners and what gave rise to the enmity. So if in earthly life hatred and discord seem to prevail, the human being must especially try to eliminate these bad habits .... It is not enough for a person to anxiously avoid an argument .... he must aim to adapt himself to the other person where possible and change hostile feelings into the opposite. The success of such intention will be felt so indescribably beneficially, all hatred will end since love, gentleness and patience will take its place, and the person will experience an inner sense of satisfaction if he tries, where possible, to undo all injustice done to him with the weapon of love .... Love disarms all anger, vindictiveness and the urge for revenge .... Love reduced the feeling of suffering injustice and will never consider retribution, for it strives for spiritual perfection and for this every degrading thought has to be excluded first, and the Lord will take abode where the human being rises above himself and the heart has transformed itself to love, gentleness and patience, for this is the inevitable basic condition for the Lord to reveal Himself and thus also practise patience with His children .... Human revenge and retribution are not permissible where the soul wants to liberate itself from its chains .... therefore, hand everything over to the Lord, for He is pure Love Itself and will exact vengeance according to the law of love .... Likewise, you, too, should make an effort to practise love among each other and always and forever fulfil the Lord's will, Who cautions you against judging your fellow human beings' unkindness too harshly ....

Amen

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Childlike relationship .... form prayer .... language of the heart ....

B.D. 1030 from July 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Anyone who feels called to serve the lord and constantly asks for His grace is approached by the lord in every way, for he testifies to his will to work for God and thus also draws God's love through his will. And in prayer for strength he confesses his weakness before the lord, and his relationship with God is that of a child .... and the father in heaven asks for nothing more. Not for a single moment in his life on earth does such a child consider himself arrogant. With a humble and loving heart he is grateful to the father in heaven for every gift of grace and therefore remains a true child before God, Who protects him from every spiritual decline .... For once someone has entered into this right relationship with Him, he can no longer go astray, i.e. be spiritually arrogant towards the father in heaven. For through his humble plea for God's grace he attains wisdom, and all wisdom makes him regocnize the greatness of the father in heaven more and more and makes him ever more humble and desirous of love. And therefore all spiritual knowledge, all higher development and attainment of the state of perfection always has the human being's childlike relationship with the father as a prerequisite, and prayer in spirit and in truth is in turn the visible sign that the earthly child has entered into this relationship with the father. Yet the lord pays no attention to formal prayers, for they kill any feeling of love .... He cannot pray in spirit and in truth who uses prescribed words which do not come from the bottom of his heart, for they do not reflect his own thinking but the thinking of others .... The human being should express himself to the father in the most intimate bond with Him as his heart feels, he should truly regard the father as father and come to Him with all his little worries and concerns, and precisely this intimate contact (with the father) will trigger true devotion, and such a prayer will not be a mere form .... For God gave people the intellect for this purpose, that they should be active themselves and send their spirit upwards. If man makes use of a form, his heart does not speak to the father, but he again only fulfils a duty imposed on him, and this prayer cannot have the right value before God, since the father wants to be called upon as father and hear the voice of His child in the most childlike way .... simply, intimately and fully trusting in the love and omnipotence of the one to Whom the prayer is addressed ....

Amen

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Call of God .... earthly activity ....

B.D. 1031 from July 30th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The lord determines the time of your work, and you will therefore receive the proclamation according to which you are to stop your earthly activity and devote yourself entirely to the lord. Your task demands your full commitment, you must place yourself at the disposal of your lord and saviour with all your strength and with complete devotion and faithfully fulfil everything that is asked of you; and all obstacles that stand in your way will be removed with God's help. You must never think that a hardship could arise for yours if you no longer fulfil your previous work; on the contrary, a complete change in your previous life situation will relieve you and grant you complete freedom, but you should then also use this in the right spirit and enter into the service of the lord without delay. The divine master teaches His disciples for the very purpose that they are active for Him and in His name on earth, and when He now calls them, they are to serve Him without contradiction. They are to give to mankind just as they have been given .... They are to teach the word of God to people and by no means be negligent and lukewarm in spreading these divine teachings. And the time will soon come when the desire for the pure word of God will awaken among men, and every stirring of the human heart will be taken into account .... it shall be fed with gifts from heaven, whoever desires them, and no one who desires shall be ignored when the word of God is proclaimed. You will hear the words of the lord calling you to diligent activity for Him, and if you submit to the divine will with a believing heart, your heart will also urge you to do what you should do. The lord will not leave you in doubt, rather He will send you His grace so that your heart will not be in doubt but you will clearly and unambiguously regocnize the will of the divine lord. And then you should unwaveringly follow the path which is shown to you by the father, for you will be on the right track if you only ever abandon yourself to divine guidance. And now hear the words from above: Take care that you do not lose yourself in overly anxious thoughts, for this is a sign of too weak faith and hinders you in many ways. Seek to nurture complete trust in yourself and only allow the father in heaven Himself to rule, then every doubt or anxious thought will stay away from you and you will attain complete strength of faith in the shortest possible time. Only heartfelt prayer for strength will help you to receive an extraordinary gift of grace, and this in turn should first and foremost apply to your still weak faith, and thus every doubting thought will also be banished from your heart, and you will visibly regocnize the divine love which guides you with extraordinary care, and you will serve this divine love with joy and devotion for all eternity ....

Amen

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Compassion .... Sick and weak people ....

B.D. 1032 from July 31th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Take care of the sick and the weak, and consider that they are suffering and need your help. You should be compassionate and constantly consider the welfare of these poor people, whose physical afflictions make their life intolerable, you should try to alleviate this suffering and selflessly help them at all times. This is pleasing to God, and since you are all children of God, one shall also be concerned for the other and not allow heartlessness or indifference towards your fellow human being arise in you. How often do people pass by the sick and the weak without offering them a comforting word, it is very depressing for these sufferers. They are helpless in their state and grateful for every word granted by love .... And how often do they have to go without because no considerate word is spoken to them. They are lonely, and their soul is seized by profound sadness, for it hungers for love and is only scantily considered ....

And the Lord teaches compassion .... and promises eternal bliss, for compassion presupposes love, and only a labour of love will bring salvation to the soul. Compassion is purest neighbourly love, for it wants to help and expects nothing in return .... A person can be ailing in body as well as in soul .... and bringing him help is always inexpressibly valuable .... speaking words of comfort to the physically weak and offering the psychologically sick and frail the right remedy out of kind-hearted neighbourly love .... For the body’s suffering will come to an end one day but not that of the soul unless it is approached by active neighbourly love bringing it help to escape its adversity.

The weak and ailing person, however, needs twice as much support, for the body’s weakness often also lets the soul descend into helplessness, and it can only be helped by selfless love which, as it were, awakens the soul from its lethargic state and thus stimulates it to take care of improving its condition. Then the human being will also bear his physical suffering with patience, if only the soul has come to the right recognition on account of its fellow human being’s active help which supported it during its adversity.

Any actively compassionate person can bestow untold blessings, for the earthly child will feel this both earthly as well as spiritually, and the thus considered person will have to feel relieved and, on account of the spiritual strength which shines across with every deed of love, turn his gaze upwards. And thus will love and compassion for sick and weak people result in twice as many blessings .... It will help to improve the physical condition of the sick and weak and simultaneously be extremely beneficial for the soul, and therefore, don’t forget to grant them your help and kind-hearted sympathy, lift them up physically and spiritually, and thereby also let their time of suffering become a time of spiritual maturing for them .... and the Lord will bless those who are full of compassion towards their suffering fellow human beings ....

Amen

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Spiritual unity of all works of creation .... visible ....

B.D. 1033 from August 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Behold, My child, countless living beings are born every hour and My spirit is embodied in all of them, and this is all the more astonishing as every embodiment, i.e. this shell, is also spiritual substance from Me .... Consequently, everything that surrounds you, everything that is around you, in you and above you, points towards Me as the creator of all things and yet can only be grasped spiritually. Even if you have knowledge, this knowledge is of little use as long as the spirit in you is not awakened, for only an awakened spirit is able to explain to you comprehensibly the relationship between you and everything around you. But unawakened spirit you brood, and such brooding can lead to disorganized thinking rather than to full understanding. Once the spirit in you has come alive then you will understand everything, and you will always and constantly regocnize Me everywhere in nature, because everything spiritual in creation will then find access to the divine spirit in you, and you will experience something so powerful and wondrous in yourselves that you will only regard nature as an emanation of My spirit of love. Undoubted faith and unselfish love awaken the spirit from Me in you, and thus this will first be necessary in order to comprehend everything that presents itself to your eyes, and suddenly you will no longer be an individual being standing in creation but you will feel your belonging together with all creation, for you no longer see yourselves as the form created by Me but, whatever you are, as the emanation of a great spirit, as a spiritual substance which certainly emanates from the original spirit but is inseparable, which is always and eternally divine in itself, only temporarily not recognizing itself as such. Whoever has become aware of the spiritual unity of all works of creation in union with nature now consciously regocnizes what he is and never ever loses this awareness. And he now looks at the most diverse creations in the light of this truth and now also has the highest spiritual successes to record, because the spiritual around him shares itself with him as it were visibly and helps to increase his knowledge by granting him insight into the spiritual work of all creation. The same strength which manifests itself to you humans through revelations from above is also constantly at work in order to express itself visibly, and it only requires your will, profound faith and lively activity of love in order to introduce you to further knowledge of My omnipotence, love and wisdom ....

Amen

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Immortality of the soul .... granting of grace ....

B.D. 1034 from August 1st 1939, taken from Book No. 19

So hear the voice of the lord and pay attention to it: You deprive yourselves of the greatest favour as long as you doubt the immortality of the soul, because on the assumption that life has found its end with the death of the earthly body, you desire nothing that lasts for eternity. You are therefore as it were content with the care of your body on earth and do not ask for any help for life after death. And you do not consider the spirit but are content with what is only beneficial for the body. And if you do not ask, help cannot be granted to you. You will certainly end the life of the body with the death of the body but not the life of the soul. In a form, which your way of life on earth determines itself, will be the soul's new stay according to this bodily life, you will no longer be able to do anything out of your own strength, however use your senses exactly as on earth and therefore feel joy and also suffering, and this is every soul's inevitable fate that it has to take upon itself the just atonement or the just reward and cannot escape it. And therefore it is of utmost importance to count on the soul's continued life on earth, because without faith in it the human being does not avail himself of God's grace, that is, he believes that he does not need divine help and only focuses all his thoughts and actions on the fulfilment of earthly duties, and this lets him fall seriously behind when he is asked for spiritual merit in eternity .... Nothing depresses the soul more than unutilized opportunities of earthly life .... And every earthly life will remain unused for eternity if the concept of 'eternity' is incomprehensible to the human being without faith in the soul's continued existence, for who cares for eternity if he simply lacks faith in it? .... And thus a soul certainly enters into earthly rest but can only bask in the peace of heaven if it was restlessly active on earth for life in the beyond. Or else it must now seek to reach it by a laborious path, which would have been many times easier for it when it was still in the body of flesh. And so I call out to all doubters on earth: Remember life after death and do not live in the delusion that everything ends with the death of the body .... but know that only then does the real life begin .... know that you only have to pass a probationary period on earth, but that only then does the real life begin and this life is completely dependent on how you have utilized earthly life. For it is a dreadful certainty for the soul that it let earthly life pass by and now has to regocnize its poverty of spiritual treasures at the entrance into the beyond. And therefore make use of your life as long as you are still in full possession of your strength and ask for grace unceasingly, for it alone enables your spiritual progress and clears the path to your eternal home ....

Amen

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Defeating resistance - reducing matter ....

B.D. 1035 from August 2nd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

In every matter the immature spiritual is hidden, and this has a powerful influence on the human being coming into contact with this matter, and this explains why the human being is and has to be in constant battle with everything that surrounds him. To become master of this immature spiritual substance means to defeat its resistance and thereby strengthen the spiritual substance within and thus mature .... Nothing can be conquered without a fight, and the human being would soon be crushed by matter and the immature spiritual substance if he did not resist it. The immature spiritual substance, although it emerged from God, is still so far removed from Him due to the spiritual arrogance of the originally created spiritual beings that it does not regocnize its origin and thus resists everything that wants to reach God as its creator and father. And thus such opposing endeavours must inevitably be at war with each other. However, the human being who fights and is successful contributes considerably to the fact that much power is wrested from the adversary, for the spiritual that has been overcome increases the spiritual that is more mature in itself. Thus, if the human being has succeeded in becoming master of all adversities in life, if he only ever endeavours to call upon spiritually perfect beings for help in order to overcome them, then he has fulfilled his duty on earth and had an unspeakably liberating effect in a spiritual sense, whereas an existence without a fight was not very blessed and much immature spiritual substance remains unredeemed until this battle is taken up against it. And seen in this light, everything that seems difficult to bear will be explained to you as infinitely important and inevitable and, if you want to serve God, you will patiently take it upon yourselves and be mindful that the father in heaven will also provide you with help if only you sincerely ask Him for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Living and dead faith ....

B.D. 1036 from August 3rd 1939, taken from Book No. 19

You should have a living faith and not just be content with the form .... This is what the father demands of His children, and you will have to fulfil this demand if you want to be blessed by this faith. If you are taught true faith and you only accept it outwardly, i.e. you do not combine the acceptance of faith with the deed, then this faith is dead, for it does not awaken the spirit in you .... it is only a form, calculated for the world, but of no use to yourselves. On the contrary, such a belief can still give rise to the erroneous view that you have completely fulfilled your duty and are therefore relieved of all responsibility. But such a formal belief has caused immense damage among mankind, as thousands arm themselves with the shield of such a belief and their souls are dead and do not derive the slightest benefit from it. Faith only comes to life when a person consciously makes contact with God; when the thought of the eternal deity makes him think and act differently than was originally the case. Living faith must determine all thinking, something must not only be regocnized as a precaution or on a trial basis which one then endeavours to prove, but without being able to provide proof the conviction must be present in the human being's heart that God is .... and this conviction must again trigger the will to put the divine will before one's own. What the human being believes is then put into practice, and this is then not a dead faith since it revitalizes the human being .... i.e. it stimulates activity. Nowadays, however, only a vanishingly small number of people are able to feel the power of faith in themselves because this word is not just an empty concept to them. Although people speak of faith because they have been taught to do so, they do not even realize what faith itself is. It is not just the affirmation of something that cannot be proven .... faith is rather an affirmation of everything that cannot be grasped with the senses, and an acceptance and unconditional acceptance of all demands that are made on us through this very faith. If a person does what the eternal deity demands of him, he regocnizes this demand and has thus become alive, i.e. the power from God now has a vitalizing effect on the person who completely professes his faith in God. And anyone who thus stands in living faith will never again be a man of form; he will not fulfil what is demanded of him out of habit or for the sake of his fellow human beings but solely for the sake of Him Who, according to faith, is the epitome of everything; he will affirm precisely because he believes and thus become wide awake in spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"No one can serve two masters ...."

B.D. 1037 from August 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

He who loves life creates death for himself, and he who willingly gives it up will live for eternity. After all, earthly life is only the preliminary stage for eternity, and if you don't want to give up earthly life then your love is still too focussed on earthly things and you cannot be happy with such love in your heart, you are unable to open your heart to the spiritual and therefore also unable to lead a spiritual life .... Yet spiritual life is the epitome of bliss. If you take a container that has become completely unusable and put water into it, your efforts to keep the water in it will be in vain .... Similarly, even the slightest resistance is an obstacle if the water is to be passed through the finest opening .... And now consider a heart fully turned towards earthly life .... It can still and still hear spiritual truths, they will not be able to remain in it, but will fade away without being heard. And in the same way, spiritual truth cannot penetrate the human heart if the entrance to it is blocked by obstacles, which are earthly temptations and attractions of the world. And again, without spiritual truths the human soul cannot mature, for the soul needs them as spiritual nourishment, whereas all earthly fulfilment is only food for the body. However, at death the body ceases to exist, thus only the soul is destined for life in eternity. This is now atrophied and almost lifeless if a person only loves earthly life and desires its fulfilment. "Whoever gives up his body out of love for Me will have eternal life, and not as the world gives you, so I give you ...." These words of the lord give direction for life on earth. What you are to strive for cannot be compared to the pleasures of the world. You should not serve your body and fulfil every desire, for this body is passing away .... But if you sacrifice all the desires of the body to the lord and saviour .... if you put the physical life in the background and only think of the life of the soul on earth, heavenly joys will one day be prepared for you, and what you give will be repaid to you a thousandfold .... But if you believe that you can do both at the same time, if you believe that you can serve the world and at the same time provide spiritual nourishment for your soul, then the lord calls out to you: "No one can serve two masters ...." He who turns to the earth and its lust does not find the way upwards; he who desires the world is the servant of him who tries to pull you down, and you cannot reach upwards and serve the lord God at the same time .... for you are then in contradiction to what you are supposed to do, both upwards and downwards. Spiritual progress requires the renunciation of everything worldly, and if you are placed in the position of being confronted with both and having to decide, then it is now your free will what you choose, however, it is never possible to reach a compromise and thus make a request to the heavenly father to approve of striving towards both sides .... The human being must decide of his own accord to choose the path upwards and give up the world, or to accept the downfall of his soul in the desire for the world and thus be lost for eternal life in glory. And that is why it is incomparably better to live in want on earth and forgo all earthly pleasures than to be eternally excluded from heavenly pleasure and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Father's words .... praying in spirit and in truth .... tradition .... piety .... faith ....

B.D. 1038 from August 5th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

All strength from Me will overtake you, My child, and I will protect you everywhere. It is an unspeakably blissful feeling for a human child to hear My voice, yet it must already be so strong in itself that it will not lose contact with earth as long as I leave it on earth; nevertheless, the hour is no longer far away when My spirit will tangibly express itself to you, and so patiently wait for this time and always and constantly seek Me, and My nearness will be certain to you, My love will protect and guide you on the right path. The road to eternity has to be travelled bravely and courageously, after all, a goal has to be reached which promises unimaginable splendours, and the desire for it should be your incentive, for all bliss requires union with Me, and achieving this is the only purpose of earthly life. That is why I admonish you to faithfully endure and demand your heart .... Everything belongs to Me, but you should offer it to Me voluntarily and prove this to Me by serving Me. Man does not live alone, many a task is set for him and the path is clearly shown to him as to how he can reach Me through love for his neighbour. If I desire your heart then you should offer this to Me in works of neighbourly love, you should regocnize My brother in your neighbour and thus do the same to My brother as you would like to do to Me if I were visibly present among you. And your love for Me will then be recognizable and I will love you again with all intimacy and draw you to My heart, for then you will have become love, that is, you will have become one with Me and thus never be separated from Me. You loved ones on earth are all My children after all, you just don't regocnize yourselves, yet My love will not abandon you and will use all means so that you will not lose your bliss. My love remains the strictest secret to you if you do not open your heart to Me. But what the father reveals to those who are truly His children you all cannot grasp; but whoever is in Me harbours Me Myself in his heart and My power and glory will be revealed to him, even though he still lives on earth, if only he has become pure love. Your anxiety, My child, will also make you strive, and where I Myself beckon to you as a reward you will call upon all spiritual strength for support and it will be granted to you so that a child's longing for the father will be satisfied .... And you should write this deep into your heart so that the father's eyes and ears will incline towards everyone who seeks His spirit .... Whoever wants to come to Me, I am close to him and already turn his thoughts to the right realization .... He who silently worships the eternal deity never has to fear that his prayer will go unheard .... The seeker will find Me, the one who longs for Me will possess Me, and the one who gives himself fully to Me will be united with Me for all eternity. For I know all your thoughts and am in the most intimate union with those who do not deny Me. And if you, My child, ask yourself why you of all people should fulfil this task, let it suffice for you to answer that I come to the one who comes to Me .... who finds the way to Me in spirit and in truth. Behold, people have such a wrong concept of their divinity that they go such wrong ways, that they look for Me in infinite distance and that My strength and power is also a very distant concept to them .... They certainly also speak of God's love but they do not grasp this word in its deepest meaning either, otherwise they would have to know that My love wants to grant them everything that is beneficial to them and that precisely that which I deny them cannot be beneficial to them .... and if the hardship and suffering on earth seems unbearable to them they would have to realize that their life on earth is such that I have to let such things happen to them because I am love Itself .... And yet they are unaware of My great love for My children .... And the God to Whom they pray is nothing other than a tradition inherited from the fathers .... a faith which one does not want to drop out of piety, but never the true living faith which allows the heart to pray to Him sincerely, i.e. in spirit and in truth. Yet I am close to those who do so, so close that they can feel My breath, hear My word and receive My spirit .... And only those who seek Me so closely will be allowed by Me to participate in the work of redemption already on earth .... This task is so exceedingly great and necessary for the sake of the many erring souls, and once again My call sounds to all those who want to serve Me: I need you .... I still want to bring salvation to many through you .... I want to speak to people through you, and your activity in love shall make this possible. And if therefore the call goes out to you to fight for the one Who loves you, then follow this call with haste and do not let yourselves be held back; I do everything out of love for you and I will reward you for the love you show Me for all eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Conveying the divine word .... power of the word ....

B.D. 1039 from August 6th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Impart spiritual knowledge to people and strengthen them in the battle of life, and I will bless your beginning .... I have intended this spiritual task for you since time immemorial and therefore increase your knowledge that the adversity of the time will be remedied amongst people whose souls longingly turn to Me, yet the strength of their faith is not sufficient to overcome the obstacles they are confronted with and thus they would break down and lose faith in Me if I did not want to give them the necessary strength. And this is intended for you, for their hearts are willing and My fatherly eye sees their shortcomings and needs. And through the love which is inherent in them they acquire My grace and thus My help .... Their hearts rejoice when they feel My grace, their souls regocnize Me and all spirits come alive when they receive My word. A short time still, and the circle closes ever more intimately together, who fights in My name and for My name (and he will not fear earthly power, but stand up courageously and fearlessly for My word) against those who want to deny Me. And then the power with which I have invested My word will also be revealed, for everyone will regocnize brightly and clearly that he is fighting for Me, and he will not fear earthly power but will stand up for My word courageously and fearlessly because he cannot help but serve Me with the whole commitment of his life. And those who carry the shield of faith are truly invincible, they fight and contend with Me and I protect them from every danger. And so may every day of your life be blessed which leads you towards your mission, so that not an hour will escape unused and you will help to increase the number of those who carry Me in their hearts and thereby control unspeakable spiritual hardship on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assistance through spiritual power .... the saviour goes through all countries ....

B.D. 1040 from August 7th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Whoever enjoys God's favour should be restlessly active, for the time on earth is short, but the way home is long for those who do not regocnize God. And your help and loving care should be directed towards them so that they will come to regocnize. Everything spiritual in man longs for liberation and yet cannot develop properly as long as this freedom is not granted to him. And if you want to bring liberation to the spirit, you must remember the givers who harbour the divine spirit in abundance. They live, although no longer earthly among you, but always and constantly around you and help you in every way. For what is life on earth .... But only a transition to that life where everything spiritual works in highest perfection to redeem the unfinished. Remain in constant contact with them and you will likewise be able to have a redeeming effect on earth, you will conquer whatever stands in your way. And in this way you will also conquer matter, as it were; it will not be able to stand in the way of the spiritual in you but will always be victoriously overcome by you .... The spirit of all life dominates the spirit of darkness, for the light spreads across the earth despite all resistance and has a power in itself that is incomparable, and so this light illuminates everything that was dark before .... it shines in every corner and separates the darkness of the night from the brightness of the day .... And whoever steps into the circle of this light emerges from it irrevocably enlightened, but whoever stands aside and shades his eye will continue to walk his path in darkness of spirit and his earthly life will be lived in vain. Turn to all spiritual strength, you willing ones on earth, that you may be granted assistance for restless work, for the labour in the vineyard of the lord shall still be greatly accomplished, and every worker is dear and worthy of the divine saviour, if only his striving is serious and his will submissive to the divine will. The saviour Himself goes through all countries, and He strengthens His own with His power and His love .... He makes those who carry Him in their hearts feel Him, and thus He is constantly among them and works secret signs of His presence .... Anyone who looks around him will regocnize the signs and all anxiety will disappear from you, for why should you be anxious when the lord Himself is with you? .... Trust in His help and give yourselves unreservedly to Him and His love, and you will experience the power of the spirit in you, which will overtake you if only you believe .... He watches over you and blesses you, and in such care you will be able to work for Him for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Circle of the knowing under control .... activity of the mind ....

B.D. 1041 from August 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Anyone who is once accepted into the circle of those who know will never be able to escape the blessing of these revelations, for his spirit has regocnized the truth from God and now also strives towards fullest union with Him, and everything the human being now does unconsciously is the activity of his spirit, and he therefore also remains in constant contact with spiritual strength in the good sense, for what the human being strives for is hidden in his deepest depths .... The human being himself is not able to regocnize it, but the spirit is unhindered in its recognition and knows about every subtle impulse, about its actual task and pursues it without delay. This is why external influences may assail the human being in an often seemingly obstructive manner, but this does not impose any restrictions on the spirit within him, he is not affected by any external influences, as he can free himself at any time and separate himself from his envelope. The strangest phenomena are signs of this separation from the body .... The body becomes tired and apathetic, while the spirit is in tremendous activity away from the body and this then appears in the consciousness of the person as a completely apathetic state. Who knows to be accepted in the circle of the knowing ones, his experience is constantly controlled by spiritual beings, and such immense arrangements are made in spiritual relationship that a straying or straying away from the gained knowledge is no longer to be feared, since just the spirit can only now unfold unhindered and now also takes care itself that man remains in divine order. Spiritual forces which serve the adversary will now also want to test their power on the now knowledgeable human being, and this will be noticeable through immense resistance which will oppose a sincere endeavour .... It is objections and contradictions from outside which give rise to doubts in the human being, noticeable manifestations of these forces, yet the power of these is small in contrast to the good spiritual forces which are concerned about the earthly child, and in cases of doubt the awakened spirit of God will repeatedly enlighten him. There is only a certain danger when a person allows himself to come to a standstill .... when he becomes tired, as it were, of working on himself .... when he believes himself to be perfect .... However, this is always a sign that the spirit has not yet been completely liberated, and this danger can therefore only threaten at the beginning of spiritual endeavour and is to a certain extent due to the efforts of evil forces which were not sufficiently resisted by all too easily listening to their evil whisperings which tried to make the human being arrogant and thus the earthly child succumbed. But if the human being only ever recommends himself to divine grace and love in heartfelt prayer, he will never suffer shipwreck .... Man should never trust too much in his own strength, but always and everywhere implore God's help, and he will have nothing to fear and will reach his goal with divine help ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual guides .... why calling for help is necessary ....

B.D. 1042 from August 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

It is so incomparably comforting to be allowed to live life on earth in the constant care of spiritual guides, and this thought is extremely reassuring for all those who lack willpower and yet do not want to act contrary to God's will. Anyone who lives under constant threat must also have constant protection around him in order not to become anxious despite the threat .... And every human being is in a vulnerable position in view of the fact that the opposing power is constantly fighting for his soul and therefore has the greatest interest in bringing him down. But if the human being takes refuge in the spiritual forces which were given to him for protection during his earthly life, they can now carefully protect the earthly child and block the evil forces' path to the human being's soul, and this means a tremendous relief for the struggling soul. However, it is absolutely necessary to call upon these forces, which are indeed ready to help at any time but are not allowed to give their help without being asked according to divine law. For the power of love of these perfected spiritual beings is so great that they would not let any earthly being get into trouble and danger of its own accord, but consequently there would also be no possibility for the human being to get into danger at all; and the dangers, on the other hand, must influence the earthly child to be active of its own accord and also to call upon spiritual help of its own accord in order to thereby manifest its free will, which inevitably has to be offered to the father in heaven first. But if he turns to the father in heaven of his own accord, then every opportunity is also given to the spiritual friends to provide him with all conceivable assistance, for then the preconditions are fulfilled which make the human being on earth partaker of the divine gift of grace, which also includes being looked after by spiritual friends. In this you will always regocnize the lord's wise care .... Help is available to you in unlimited measure, it is offered to you in every form, and you are never defenceless in life when you need it and therefore sincerely request it.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Benefit of the light from above .... spiritual poverty .... truth ....

B.D. 1043 from August 8th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

It is so extremely important that you accept and heed the teachings from above, for you will be instructed in all truth and, as it were, new foundation walls will be erected for you which will offer you security so that the ground you tread upon cannot collapse, and thus you will also remain bearers of this truth as you stand securely in the truth. It is like a bright light around you so that you no longer need to anxiously ask yourselves where you should look for the truth and how you should reach it. A single moment full of light can therefore have helped you to salvation, if you have valued this moment and followed the ray of light, which soon turned into a sea of light and ignited your heart and set it ablaze. Man now doubly fears the darkness and therefore seeks to prove himself worthy of the bright light by willingly opening his heart and accepting all truth. And God wants to show all men the favour of the light from the heavens; he wants that every man participates in the supply of favour, which again and again is given to men immeasurably; however, he cannot transfer the fullness of light to those who want to remain in the darkness of the spirit, and only the willing opening of the heart is at the same time cause that the light flows through the heart ever brighter and more shining and that man is finally completely flooded by love for God and therefore stands in light and in love. And time and again the human being has the opportunity to enter the circle of light of divine radiance; he need only want to and entrust himself to the father in heaven without inhibition and present his spiritual poverty to Him, and the lord will enlighten such a person's spirit and spread the truth. Consequently, no human being needs to be concerned that the father could withhold spiritual truths from him if he only desires such .... Only the will is necessary, and man can constantly draw from the source of truth .... from God Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Protection of the saviour .... separation from the world .... resistance ....

B.D. 1044 from August 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

And this is the power of the world, that it weakens you .... but in the saviour you are strong. When He spreads His hands over you, all desire for the world falls away from you and you only desire divine protection and His love. And therefore you should constantly endeavour to entrust yourselves to His protection, you should as it were ask for the saviour's blessing without ceasing, and the path of life will become easy for you and you will learn to despise the world. And again the lord speaks to His own: Detach yourselves with all your might from that which keeps you far from Me, offer your heart to Me so that I may bless it, and you will have peace within yourselves and no longer desire the world .... and your life will only be the fulfilment of your duty on earth and joyful service to your divine lord and saviour. And the voice of your heart will tell you that this way of life is right and will bring you closer to Me. And strive for union with Me with all your senses, for this offers you compensation for everything you sacrifice to Me in earthly life. And if you call upon Me to help you, My strength will flow into you and you will overcome life with all its temptations. And don't fall prey to the temptations which repeatedly approach you .... which are intended to test your strength of resistance and will and make you strong in battle. Only he who carries Me in his heart will reach the heights, as I stand by his side in every battle and am always and forever his protection and shield. And such resistance must fuel the desire for Me so that the earthly child will join Me ever more firmly and no longer be able to live without Me and My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fight against matter in the hereafter .... help from above ....

B.D. 1045 from August 9th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Those souls are entitled to enter the kingdom of peace who have cultivated a purely spiritual relationship in earthly life and have therefore fulfilled all preconditions for a life of bliss on earth. Everything that dedicates itself to the spiritual never has to fear an agonizing state in the beyond, for it has consciously separated itself from the earthly world .... and therefore need not fear to be in close contact with matter again, as is the case, however, with completely imperfectly departed souls or souls that are still too attached to earthly things. These have not yet become completely free from matter, and since their love is therefore still for matter, they will also have to endure the same struggles and trials in the life beyond in order to attain final liberation from it. Although all matter only exists in the imagination of such a soul, the battle is precisely to overcome it, and thus the soul suffers as it did on earth due to its greed for the possession of everything that was desirable to it on earth and will not release the soul's senses again until it has fought down all desire within itself and thus become free, i.e. has overcome matter. The state in the hereafter is not very enviable. The soul is continually tormented by the urge for possessions, it is, as on earth, unfree as soon as a desire arises in it; it also believes that it has complete right of disposal over everything material and is thus incredibly domineering and selfish as long as it is not in realization. And again, this realization cannot be imparted to the soul if it does not willingly lend a hand itself, i.e. if it shakes off everything that bound it on earth and is willing to give in return. The only possibility of complete liberation is again only the prayer of a person who remembers the soul with love or the love of the souls approaching it from above. These try to make the soul understand how little value the collection of earthly goods has for the soul in the beyond .... When this is presented to it in such detail, many a soul is still able to free itself from its tormenting shell, for the so longingly desired earthly goods ...., which in truth do not exist at all ...., are wrapped around the soul like shackles and weigh it down and burden it indescribably, and it will not feel the beneficence of the help granted to it by higher spiritual beings until it willingly renounces all earthly goods. Countless souls still languish in the bonds of matter .... countless beings have to atone bitterly for wasting their hearts on earthly trinkets, on worldly goods, and only when they realize that everything that seems attractive to them only exists in their imagination, only when they sense that true bliss in the beyond can only be attained by sacrificing or surrendering all earthly desires or earthly possessions, will the soul find the right connection between things and gradually approach the right realization. But then it progresses quickly; but before it has reached the right realization, its state is a pitiable one and it is extremely grateful for every help that is brought to it by loving people or higher spiritual beings, and that is why man should always remember these souls in prayer ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Believers secular researchers .... providences of God ....

B.D. 1046 from August 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

There are things between heaven and earth in the explanation of which worldly wisdom is considerably mistaken. Not only in the structure of the entire work of creation do the teachings of the worldly wise deviate from the truth, but they are also riddled with many errors in detail and consequently only someone with spiritual knowledge can correct these wrong views .... However, he cannot gain access to them because the spiritual results cannot be substantiated with evidence and therefore do not appear credible to them. However, a control of the spiritual teachers is the surest guarantee of truthfulness for the earthly child who is being taught, and it can therefore fully surrender to the belief that it is in complete truth as long as there remains a serious spiritual exchange between earth and the beyond. A child who wants to serve God of its own accord is also under God's protection, and therefore the worldly wise, although in great numbers, are nevertheless far behind in their knowledge if one compares this with the spiritual knowledge of such an earthly child, which as a receptacle of divine wisdom truly harbours such to a great extent. The world still remains dismissive, and precisely those who want to be in the knowledge are the strictest and most bitter opponents of everything that is spiritually connected, since most of them probably also lack the deep belief in a deity Which expresses Itself in the form of such transmissions from the spiritual kingdom to earth. Anyone who deals with such problems in faith will not find spiritual results so unacceptable, and it would therefore be far easier to convince the world if a devout circle of worldly researchers wanted to stand up for it and fight against the misguided teachings of the unbelievers. And therefore the attention of the teachers in the beyond is particularly focussed on getting such believers into the circle of the truly knowledgeable, and in this context many a coincidence can be explained, for the father in heaven guides His children according to His will, and if He is not opposed, every event in life is of greatest value for the spiritual development of the individual as well as for the spiritual transformation of humanity as a whole ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The messages are given in a specified order .... Teaching ....

B.D. 1047 from August 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Listen to the Lord's will: The messages from above are given with specific regularity and succession and were therefore transmitted in a specific order. But you will only discover this succession when you have achieved complete knowledge because the messages of wisdom were given to people consecutively, apparently without any correlation to each other, thus all gifts from above are unique messages of wisdom in themselves and yet absolutely essential to make subsequent messages understandable. Everything just serves to stimulate the human being's activity of thought and to become more aware of the spirit which surrounds you.

Therefore the teachings have to be offered in a way that the human being can gain insight into all subjects and reflect on them. The revelations also have to be comprehensible so that the recipient can understand everything of this nature and that the creation as well as the activity of spiritual beings in the beyond is, in a manner of speaking, figuratively portrayed to them. This happens in carefully prepared teachings, which in turn follow one another so that people can perceive in their thoughts an understanding of what is offered to them.

Therefore the messages are at times seemingly without connection .... first one subject, then another is chosen for detailed consideration because the spiritual teachers always recognise the necessity of this and constantly supplement missing knowledge when it is required. Repetitions have to be offered time and again until the earthly child has completely understood and become aware of the significance and importance of the given spiritual principles. A single lesson and presentation could not lead to the kind of knowledge that is essential for the recipient to teach in turn .... and likewise every spiritual question has to be answered with extreme clarity and certainty for the divine teaching to be accepted by human beings, and that requires the greatest and most extensive knowledge ....

For this reason you often receive revelations which you believe were given to you before. This is necessary so that anyone who wants an explanation of the divine Word can be clearly and plainly taught by you one day. Only the greatest attention and willingness to learn can result in a particular maturity within a short time, for this reason every message is wisely considered and given to you in accordance with the Lord's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Agony of the naked souls .... celebrations on earth ....

B.D. 1048 from August 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

At the hour of death the soul is in extreme distress if it regocnizes the idleness of its life, and this hour is then a terrible struggle for it. It passes through the gate of eternity poor and abandoned, in a state that is pitiable because it remembers its failed life and cannot absolve itself of guilt. And in this adversity it is often painful what presents itself to the spiritual eye of such souls when they are unusually honoured and celebrated on earth and yet these celebrations cannot be brought into any connection with the extremely miserable existence in the beyond. All splendour on earth is an unspeakable pain for this soul as it was, so to speak, the cause of its worldly striving and thus of its present situation. And now this soul walks along in nakedness and extreme poverty, and all the festivities on earth that take place for its sake cannot give it the slightest relief .... They only fill the soul with anger, and the self-reproaches are so terrible that it wanders about in an agonizing state. Only a thought sent after it in love can bring it relief, and thus the soul can only hope for relief if it leaves people behind on earth who were united with it in true love. Every work of love, no matter how small, which it once did on earth is a blessing for it, now it is in all nakedness, and if a person on earth remembers it lovingly, this gives it strength, and in its abandonment it looks for a way which can bring it relief from its dreadful situation. However, the emptier its earthly life was in terms of works of love, the more difficult it will be for it to find the path to light ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Activity in the afterlife .... ray of light ....

B.D. 1049 from August 11th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

This should be especially emphasized to you, that only the soul which consciously turned to the eternal deity in earthly life can enter the spheres of light. For dwelling in the light requires a state which in turn can only be attained with God's help and therefore has to be requested by faith in Him. But a person without faith is also incapable of acquiring strength in order to reach the same state of maturity, because a dark state of the soul makes it impossible to dwell in the light. Such a soul can only stay in an environment which is adapted to its immature state, even though it also suffers unspeakably from the darkness. Through God's grace, through prayer or people's loving remembrance and help from the higher spiritual beings the soul nevertheless comes close to a ray of light at times in order to arouse its will and awaken the desire to enter a more luminous environment. And every ray of light has some cause, and it is always based on spiritual activity of love and therefore has to have a beneficial effect on the souls of darkness. Incorrigible, i.e. completely unwilling souls flee from such a ray, yet the souls which feel their darkness oppressively are infinitely grateful for such attention and make an effort to remain in constant contact with the beings which want to help them although they have not yet regocnized their power. The souls now receive the most varied instructions and are always advised to lend a helping hand wherever a soul is in dire need .... As a result, a kind of community soon arises among them, they all want to serve each other and ease each other's lot, and this endeavour is the beginning of ascent. As soon as a soul has regocnized how unspeakably the souls suffer who have not lived in accordance with God's will on earth, it is also willing to help and eagerly tries to make up for what it has neglected to do for the beings whose fate is likewise self-inflicted darkness. Yet the struggle is unspeakably difficult where no prayer on earth can bring relief. They are now so painfully deprived of the works of love they neglected on earth, and therefore you humans are repeatedly admonished: Help them through your prayer in their struggle for light .... give them strength to strive for light through your love and turn your compassion towards them so that a ray of light may shine for them too and show them the way upwards.

Amen

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The eternal deity ....

B.D. 1050 from August 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Regocnize the deity .... as It expresses Itself in every work of creation, as the starry sky bears witness to it and all life on earth .... There is nothing in the universe that does not reveal His power and might, and nature is like a great riddle that can only be solved by recognizing this power. The most peculiar phenomena of earthly existence likewise reveal the highest perfection of the eternal deity, His unsurpassable wisdom and His all-encompassing love. The deeper a person's spiritual knowledge, the more meaningful every experience around him becomes. He realizes that every event is just a piece of the mosaic that must not be missing if the work of art of divine love is not to remain unfinished. The eternal deity is the most luminous being in highest perfection .... it unites unsurpassable spiritual power, and it is, so to speak, the union of everything that emerged from it, likewise reached the highest degree of perfection and has now become one again with its creator. And so the deity again harbours innumerable most mature beings in Itself and is incomparable in Its unfolding of power and strength. Anyone who looks at nature with all his attention will realize that unimaginable power must be at work which brought the work of creation into being in such perfection and constantly ensures its existence ....

Amen

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The eternal deity ....

B.D. 1051 from August 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Suns and stars in endless numbers circle in the universe, and the creator shows them their course, and countless beings are assigned to these stars, and God's omnipotence and wisdom keeps everything created in wise order, and His will maintains everything that exists. And the development of all living things in this creation is a process decided from eternity, and all events must take the course predetermined by the eternal deity, for in His wisdom God regocnized the most beneficial path for the being to mature from the beginning until it completely merges with the original power. There is no being that comes close to grasping the immense size of the divine consciousness of power and strength, for everything that has emerged from God, as the creator of all things, loses itself in infinity and is an isolated living creative being until it has re-entered into union with the creator and producer. It is a miniature of the eternal deity .... likewise powerful and mighty through the union with all spiritual power in and around itself. For this is of divine origin, it is spirit from God, it is indivisible divine strength and is therefore the link between God and His created beings, and thus anyone who has become the bearer of divine strength by utilizing this spiritual strength will gradually draw ever closer to the eternal deity Himself, His power and strength becomes greater and greater, and finally the originally created being unites with its creator and only then realizes how overwhelming and unimaginable the eternal deity works everywhere and at all times in the infinitely vast universe ....

Amen

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Total dedication .... audible voice ....

B.D. 1052 from August 12th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

In full devotion you announce your will to serve Me and I am then able to give you what is to make you exceedingly happy .... My blessing and thus the strength of My love. I know all your thoughts, and so I also know how longingly you expect My word within you, and this moves Me to give you what your heart longs for. Therefore, listen within and go to rest, for I will enter your heart when the time has come and you devoutly trust Me .... For I am with you and will never leave you ....

Amen

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God of love .... not God of vengeance and wrath ....

B.D. 1053 from August 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Do not presume to take the name of the lord in your mouth without having Him in your heart and to frighten the people to whom you want to proclaim the gospel with His omnipotence and His wrath. Mankind can only be persuaded to accept the gospel and stand in the right faith on the path of love of the heart, for only a God of love can give these commandments, which put love before all thought and action .... and only a God of love can turn mercifully to people and protect them from the danger of falling into the abyss .... and only a God of love has taken the work of redemption upon Himself .... only a God of love let the work of creation come into being in order to help all beings from Him and to one day lead them into the kingdom full of power and glory. And if you make mention of this God then you must do so with the greatest love in your heart, you must likewise lean towards your fellow human beings with the deepest love and preach to them about God's love and mercy .... You must never attribute the weaknesses and faults of humanity equally to the supreme being, you must not use such means to make people's minds compliant and thereby unroll a false image for them, for this only confuses the concept of the eternal deity. And if you are now to stand up for the word of the lord you only ever have to let love prevail, accept your neighbour with gentleness and peacefulness, lovingly instruct him, do him good and thus let the strength of love affect your fellow human being, and this will touch his heart, it will awaken reciprocal love and thus ignite the divine in the person .... And only in this way does man approach the eternal deity .... Which is pure love in Itself. But if you portray God as a punishing judge, as a God of vengeance and wrath, then only fear can motivate people to fulfil their duties and their actions are devoid of love .... Learn to understand that only love will redeem you .... give to your fellow human beings with full hearts and hands, do good to them constantly, bless them when they curse you, and make the world of hatred change to love .... Then you will live in the will of God, and the kingdom of God will have come down to you. And those who preach the gospel should endeavour to be peaceable and gentle in heart, for from them shall go forth light which no shadow shall dim, and so they must not make a spectacle of the world and be angry and quick-tempered .... For this weakens the fellow human being's will to love, the human being wants to be educated and persuaded to love in all love, and therefore you should practice gentleness and patience, you should always and constantly bear in mind the lord's heavenly patience on earth, and you should remember that the heavenly father's love and patience still applies to His living creations today and that only love allows all suffering to come upon people so that they will find their way back to Him .... And so you should only ever preach about infinite love and be active in love yourselves .... and you will bring souls to God the lord in great numbers ....

Amen

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Proclaiming the divine will .... direct and indirect voice ....

B.D. 1054 from August 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The heavenly father demands willingness from His servants on earth, and this willingness should express itself through constant listening to the proclamations of His will. You receive His word, and thus the guideline for your thoughts and actions is given to you. Now to organize your life according to this word means to be active according to the divine will. However, where divine will is disregarded, the human being is in contradiction to divine order, offends against it and increases the distance from the father instead of reducing it. Every earthly child knows of its own accord what is right and what is wrong and, in order to reach the father, must do what is right and abhor what is wrong .... If the human being is seriously concerned with the problem of his earthly task, if he justifies his existence on earth with a specific purpose, his train of thought will be focussed on the demands made on him as a creature of his creator by the eternal deity. And these demands are clearly and unambiguously contained in God's word, and it may therefore only be received by the human being's will with the heart and thus be complied with, and the human being has fully fulfilled his duty on earth .... he has utilized earthly life in order to reduce the distance from the father and thus lived in accordance with God's will .... And so the first and most important thing the human being must do is to listen to the voice of God .... It is offered to him in many ways .... he can hear it directly if only he listens within himself and believes that God makes His will known to those who ask Him for it .... But he can also receive them indirectly if he listens to what God says to him through the mouth of a human being, considers these words and does not close his mind to them. If he is serious about his earthly task he will clearly and distinctly feel in his heart that God Himself admonishes and inspires him to do right, and he will regocnize the divine will .... and thus he will serve the lord and fulfil His commandments. And as soon as he has regocnized his relationship with God he will also live in the divine order, for his spirit is willing and the father in heaven will give him the necessary strength so that he can reach the heights ....

Amen

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Prediction of big events ....

B.D. 1055 from August 13th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Blessed be your beginning. For the sake of humanity, a tremendously busy activity of everything that can have a redeeming effect is unfolding. And so once again an event is in sight that will excite all minds or have a paralysing effect on the creative spirit. And many a person's resistance will fail because of this great experience .... many a soul will find its way back to the father Whom it regocnizes as the originator of all earthly events. And for the sake of these the lord will allow His strength and power to appear. He, Who knows all hearts, also knows which souls can still turn to Him and gives them His signs in such a way that countless people will indeed lose their earthly life but many will also gain life, the life that lasts for eternity. And this time, which is now coming upon earth, can rightly be called a time of battle, for many a person will also be in a battle with himself .... On the one hand he will not want to surrender his views, but on the other hand he will regocnize a power and a will and will not want to and cannot resist this will. And man must fight through this battle .... He must voluntarily surrender his own thinking, he must surrender preconceived opinions, he must try to become master of the thoughts of rejection arising in him and must finally fully commit himself to what he feels in his heart to be the truth and thus only follow the voice within himself which will already lead him on the right path, and once this victory has been achieved those people who were destined to die in the flesh will not have died in vain .... And this is so imminent that even the knowledgeable will be surprised, and therefore take note: Where the lord appears, giving and instructing, there is the limit of the event .... He who walks in the spirit of the lord will remain untouched, but the earth will be struck within the kingdom that counts the days and boasts of its power. Again a turning point of time has come, and again the world looks upon this land, and the spark that testifies to divinity begins to fall upon the land .... The spark that ignites the fire and that will not be extinguished, for the world's attention turns to that event which is far greater than all the strife and contention of the world. It no longer pays attention to the things that human will has conjured up but only to the instructions from above, and a door is lifted from its hinges that previously did not allow a view through. And only now does the human being regocnize the greatness and omnipotence of the one Who guides and directs all earthly life .... and blessed is he for whom this admonition does not come too late ....

Amen

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Putting a stop to all attempts directed against the work ....

B.D. 1056 from August 14th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Take note of the fact that all beings in the beyond will approach you helpfully if you give them the opportunity to do so through your call for them. And therefore the power is immeasurably great, which is possible for you to receive, and this is to take away every doubt from you in seemingly perilous times. See, what offers itself to heaven for service, participates as it were actively in the great work of redemption, which is after all the epitome of the activity of the world on the other side, and therefore also stands in the centre of God's radiation of power, and now the one working on earth can make extensive use of this power and apply it everywhere there, where resistance is offered to him insofar as this is meant for the spiritual work, exactly the redeeming activity on earth. Consequently, the earthly child is entitled to put a stop to all measures relating to this work which are aimed at destruction through its will, through the strength within it, which is an influx of divine strength .... It can also, in cases of serious danger to the work, command the opponent under threat of punishment from above in the name of the lord to refrain from his endeavour, and may be assured of the fullest support of God and the world beyond .... For the work on the erring souls has become so urgently necessary that the lord will provide all those who fight for Him with extraordinary strength. And no danger shall deter you from your utmost endeavours .... no threats shall be a reason to persevere or slacken in this battle which is for the erring. Anyone who has attained the steadfastness of faith, that he always and at all times unites himself in spirit with all power emanating from God .... if he is able through faith to no longer regard himself as a solitary being but as it were in the most intimate union with all spiritual beings from God, then his power on earth is great and he need not fear any determinations or interventions of the world .... Heaven blesses those who serve Him, and thus spiritual strength will protect the human being on all paths for the sake of souls which are to be led out of the darkness of the spirit into the light ....

Amen

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Reason for receiving .... (rejecting sister?)

B.D. 1057 from August 15th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Beware, the adversary is lurking everywhere to bring you down .... Therefore pray without ceasing that the lord may protect you in all danger. "Become like children," says the lord, and He blesses those who entrust themselves to Him in childlike prayer .... "and keep away everything that could shake childlike faith." Behold, as the lord teaches you, you are also His true children, and you may gratefully and joyfully receive the gifts that the lord Himself offers you. However, you must first have gone through a certain school which made you inwardly mature for receiving such teachings. You have travelled a path which was certainly more difficult but which resulted in you finding Him and thus He was able to offer you the bread from heaven .... And now you have been given a great earthly task on the one hand, but on the other hand you are offered a refreshment which gives you extraordinary strength to fulfil the task. Understand and realize that the lord has given you a ministry and is also making you strong for this ministry. And what you now receive is so powerful that it will probably be difficult for many an earthly child to comprehend it .... For the spirit of those who believe to stand alone in the light is still unawakened .... their minds are not yet receptive to such wisdom, yet their heartfelt devotion to the saviour will still bring them the right realization at the right time. The lord knows His children and He knows what is right for each child. But if you encounter resistance, seek clarification from Him alone, Who will truly advise you right .... He will not let anyone take the wrong path who turns to Him for advice and help ....

Amen

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Essence of matter ....

B.D. 1058 from August 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Matter appears insubstantial to the human being and insubstantial everything that does not visibly harbour life. And he does not consider how serious the stay in matter is for all spiritual things .... how matter is the gathering place of all immature spirit and what an important purpose is therefore intended for matter by the eternal creator .... And therefore matter itself must have originated from the will of God .... Consequently, as God's will having become form it must be something which must endure, it cannot arbitrarily sink back into nothingness but must remain .... and is therefore imperishable, yet changeable in itself. And everything that is imperishable must be spirit, from the spirit of God .... And this spiritual substance out of God is enclosed in a cover which is visible to you humans, thus that which is visible to you as matter is hidden, i.e. encased spiritual substance, the cover of which is nevertheless subject to constant change for the purpose of uniting the spiritual substance and thus of constant increase. This clear explanation gives you information about the disputed question whether and to what extent matter is insubstantial, and it sufficiently explains the importance of everything that comes to light visibly in creation. What exists is all spirit out of God, but to men on earth all spiritual remains again invisible, however must be made recognizable to the human eye and therefore be purely outwardly visible. And therefore the term 'matter' cannot be understood in any other way than that countless spiritual beings took up residence in visible shells created by God for a purpose .... And it is now the task of these beings to break through the cover, therefore to become free of every cover .... i.e. to overcome matter .... Nothing is without purpose in creation, and nothing visible remains unchanged, even the spiritual is constantly changing, yet not visible to the human eye, and this leads the human being (16 Aug. 1939) to the assumption that matter harbours nothing essential, nothing living. Man cannot follow the development of matter in the short time on earth because it often takes an incredibly long time before an old form has dissolved and changed into a new form. And therefore everything that needs a long time to change appears to man as completely dead, as insubstantial, because where man can observe a constant reshaping, there he already admits a certain life in himself, and where a life is ascertained, there one also rather regocnizes the spiritual power, which is just the epitome of 'life'. The more man now gives room to the thought that everything created is, as it were, God's breath, but that the breath of God can never ever be something dead, insubstantial, but always and constantly stimulating power, which stimulates everything to activity, but never remains in inactivity, then he never again regards the solid form visible to him as an inanimate mass, and the connection of all works of creation becomes clear to him, because all these works of creation are carriers of innumerable entities which strive towards a union within themselves and for this require both a long time as well as an external form ....

Amen

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Suicide? ....

B.D. 1059 from August 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

The soul is paralysed by the awareness that it has brought about the night of death and deprived itself of the time of grace, which after all is the embodiment on earth. Life on earth, with all its difficulties, is not nearly as painful as this dark night of death, and there is no way out of it for the time being until it realizes the consequences of its actions and realizes that it acted irresponsibly when it gave up its earthly life. The heaviest sorrow, offered up to the lord, will seem more bearable to a person, but he who does not remember the lord in his distress cannot be comforted and gives the evil powers around him power over himself. And these take advantage of man's lack of will and push him into an act that he later bitterly regrets. And it is of such great importance that the perpetual struggle of earthly life is overcome. It is so extremely important to give thanks for every day of earthly life which constantly brings the human being new opposition and to regocnize it as necessary for the salvation of the human being's soul, yet unspeakably detrimental for the soul if it arbitrarily shortens its life on earth and the human being then loses all blessings and means because it did not find the strength to resist ....

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Lies and truth .... world of appearances ....

B.D. 1060 from August 17th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Far from the right path walks the man whose soul is anxious about earthly suffering .... What is life and everything you find desirable in it .... and what a useless endeavour it is to fight for earthly recognition. Your gaze will widen if you look inwards, but what you seek in the distance will cloud your mind .... Accept the world only as an opportunity to reach the heights and seek in eternity to find the right substitute for what you lack on earth. Let yourselves be guided by the divine creator and give Him your burden to carry, He will willingly take it on His shoulders if you love and pray .... And place yourselves in His plan from eternity. The bridge to eternity is God .... love and goodness Himself .... and whoever wants to enter the bridge must be able to give love and ask sincerely .... and then there are no barriers for him that block the path to the eternal deity .... You must learn to overcome the body's fear of transience, you must pay no attention to earthly adversity and only live for eternal destiny .... And thus it is the lord's will that people's shortcomings should become visible so that the spirit of humanity can be regocnized by all who look around them with open eyes. And in the condemnation of their weaknesses there is still the possibility of saving souls by showing them their reflection and making them detest the product of false endeavour .... Truth cannot unfold in the world of appearances, and the slightest untruth has an influence on the human being's mind because the spirit in him detests untruth, and again it is worth noting that the world is based on lies and shuns the truth, whereas the spirit only takes pleasure in the truth and thus separates itself from the world and everything earthly transient. And thus there is only one way to walk .... the world must be despised, it must be fought in every way, it must only be regarded as a means to an end, it must be endured but not loved, it must be able to be sacrificed at any time and exchanged for eternity .... It contains good and evil within itself, for those forces emanate from it which turn towards the truth, but far more which act against the truth, and both directions will be in opposition to each other and yet be active for each other, for the truth brings to light the fullest realization, and likewise the lie will assert its place .... for only where there is vice can virtue also unfold, since without the possibility of vice no virtue can be practiced. And so untruth will undoubtedly dominate the world until people's spiritual state has improved and only the truth is desired for the sake of truth ....

Amen

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Gathering spiritual goods .... building .... foundation walls ....

B.D. 1061 from August 18th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

You should always be certain that the father in heaven will hear your plea if it concerns the salvation of your soul. However, you must always endeavour to avoid sin and do God's will, and then you will also be assured of divine help, for the lord promises His blessing to those who seek Him. The more intimately your heart turns to the divine saviour, the more abundantly the lord will provide for you, and if you live your earthly life in constant contact with Him, divine grace will flow to you unmeasured, for the father in heaven will give you everything your heart desires .... How much more, if your longing is for Him alone .... The father's love embraces you all and is always ready to give. Yet anyone who does not pay attention to Him will not partake of this love and his life on earth will be of little benefit to his soul. But it is a notable success if the human being, conscious of his strength from God, can entrust himself to the father at any time, question Him and receive an answer .... In this way he gathers good after good for his soul, he gathers what will last for all eternity, he lets a building arise, incomparably valuable and happy, he builds his spiritual home as it were and puts together stone after stone, for the divine master builder Himself instructs him and ensures that the foundation walls are firm and indestructible and that the human being does not run the risk of sinking into groundless soil .... And so strive above all for the most inner bond with God, so that you become worthy of His fatherly care and never remain without help .... For the father loves His children and stands by them in every adversity ....

Amen

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