New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 3276 - 3355

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

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

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

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

Table of Contents

3276 - Time of grace.... Speaker - Forerunner of the Lord....

3277 - Did Jesus Christ redeem all people, or are all people redeemed?....

3278 - Guilt of sin.... God's mercy.... atonement....

3279 - Work of redemption.... suffering.... free will....

3280 - Recognition of sin.... acting of the will....

3281 - "Come all to Me...."

3282 - "Father, Thy Will Be Done...." struggles....

3283 - God's assistance.... right prayer.... hearing....

3284 - Working for the kingdom of God.... Mission....

3285 - Prayer and deeds of love are weapons against temptations....

3286 - Dissolving the soul shell.... necessity....

3287 - Prematurely get free of the spiritual.... last resolution....

3288 - The word enlivened by the spirit....

3289 - Measures taken by the world against spiritual aspiration....

3290 - Temptations of the world....

3291 - God's voice.... work of satan.... battle of faith....

3292 - Filial love.... Paternal love....

3293 - Sin.... will.... prayer....

3294 - Source of life.... source.... living water....

3295 - Comfort.... God’s word proof of His love....

3296 - What is spiritual knowledge.... truth....

3297 - Remitting or retaining sins.... Jesus’ disciples....

3298 - Fatherly love.... protection and help....

3299 - Belief in the survival of the soul....

3300 - Destruction of works of creation and its consequences....

3301 - Exhortation to love....

3302 - Truth - calm and inner peace....

3303 - Different fields.... different kind of revealing....

3304 - Mission of God's servants according to ability.... love life....

3305 - Prayer of the awakened.... fulfilment....

3306 - Humans despite bad will God's henchmen....

3307 - Size of guilt prevents entrance into the afterlife.... banishment....

3308 - Inner prompting is God's instruction.... Subordination of will....

3309 - Spiritual and earthly bonds.... maturity....

3310 - Love.... wrong.... divine.... from human to human....

3311 - Support in coming time.... workers of the lord....

3312 - Faithful congregation.... faith power....

3313 - Supplication to the beings of light in spiritual need....

3314 - Spiritual hunger.... short time of freedom of faith....

3315 - Paying off the debt of sins through children and children's children....

3316 - Different spheres in the spiritual kingdom....

3317 - God's love determines people's destiny....

3318 - God's powerful voice.... The end of the battle....

3319 - Redemption of matter.... idleness.... activity....

3320 - Busy activity for the kingdom of God commanded....

3321 - Last judgment.... punishment for sin and act of grace....

3322 - Ability to work for the kingdom of God....

3323 - Extraordinary mission.... light....

3324 - Spheres of light.... meet again.... bliss....

3325 - Feeding the light and power current....

3326 - God reveals Himself.... promises....

3327 - Consequences of thought and action.... will decision....

3328 - Concord of spiritual results.... Truth....

3329 - Personal responsibility.... Dogma....

3330 - World renewal.... "No stone will be left unturned...."

3331 - God’s word imperishable.... indestructible....

3332 - Divine spark.... love.... flames....

3333 - Spiritualization of the substances of the body....

3334 - The cause of hard living conditions....

3335 - Guilt of sin.... forgiveness.... redemption.... cross of Christ....

3336 - Spiritual arrogance.... humility - grace....

3337 - Exhortation to work for the kingdom of God....

3338 - Love work.... beginning redemption....

3339 - Spiritual power.... bread of heaven.... hunger....

3340 - Shortening the end time....

3341 - Earthly fulfilment of duty.... spiritual work....

3342 - Power of love.... power of the divine word.... offering the divine word with or without love.... desire....

3343 - Working together in love in the end time....

3344 - Fullness of divine grace in the end time....

3345 - Multiple walk through creation.... God's plan of salvation.... recognition in the kingdom of light....

3346 - Warning of the end.... spiritual decline....

3347 - Surrender to God.... submission of the will....

3348 - Natural disaster.... Good and bad people will fall prey....

3349 - No knowledge, i.e. spiritual truth, without the will of man....

3350 - Primordial beginning - end aim.... redemption process....

3351 - God's love and mercy.... depth....

3352 - Childship to God.... Tremendous suffering on Earth....

3353 - Promoting the kingdom of God....

3354 - Mental influence by beings of light....

3355a - Ability to know and love God.... restriction of freedom.... state of ignorance.... free will.... power of life grace of God....

3355b - Ability to know and love God.... restriction of freedom.... state of ignorance.... free will.... power of life grace of God....

Time of grace .... Speaker - Forerunner of the Lord ....

B.D. 3276 from October 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Listen to the message of God’s spirit .... A time of grace has commenced, and if you are willing to strive for the kingdom of God you can feel its blessing. The beings of light are obviously and perpetually at work to impart gifts of grace from the spiritual kingdom to the human beings on earth; beings of light are embodied on earth to serve people as spiritual guides during the last days; the thoughts of people who strive towards God will be enlightened and thereby closer to the truth; God’s love will express itself in times of earthly hardship by bringing help wherever it is requested .... Devout people will accomplish extraordinary things and the power of faith will become evident .... And thus many blessings will manifest themselves, because the opposition will also use every means to cause spiritual distress to people and God wants to visibly help them.

And during this time of grace a man will appear whose spirit is from above, whose soul is totally united with the spirit within himself and who therefore speaks what the spirit reveals to him .... absolute truth in all clarity .... God Himself will speak through him, he will remind people to persevere or caution them not to abandon Him. And this speaker is the forerunner of the Lord. When he appears the coming of the Lord is close at hand. This man will considerably increase the extent of grace as he will be immensely supportive to the believers and offer unbelievers an opportunity to believe .... for he is alive with strength and might and will have considerable influence on people who listen to him. His words will ignite and spread like wildfire through the country where he will work. He will speak without fear and hesitation, he will inform people and draw their attention to the coming of the Lord in the clouds and to the Last Judgment. Yet not many people will believe him because most people no longer want to know God and the spirit, and thus their thinking is completely adverse. In short, they neither understand nor make use of the extraordinary gift of grace, consequently the end is inevitable, for the abyss will open and devour everything that does not recognise God and rejects His Word.

God is forever giving, and whatever He gives is an undeserved gift of grace designed to help people to mature even during these times of suffering .... Whether He gives sorrow or joy, it always helps the person to lift his soul to God, it is always pointing to Him, it is always a coaxing and guiding him onto the right path .... it is always grace .... And when this man arrives the amount of grace for people will also increase, because he is surrounded by and emanates light which flows to him from the spiritual kingdom .... He passes on knowledge, his word is utter wisdom and strength and can be easily accepted, because it is offered convincingly and can be understood by people if they listen to him carefully. God’s love makes it easy for people to believe by sending them His messengers with unusual strength by which alone they can be known as messengers from heaven. But he will be attacked from all sides .... and only few understand his mission and stay with him, only few draw strength from his words; but they will receive strength and grace in abundance and be able to resist the world’s confrontations, the hostilities which now take place openly ....

The last days will be extraordinary difficult but also extraordinary merciful, for God will reveal Himself wherever a heart in distress opens itself to receive His grace. And thus it will certainly be possible to be victorious in the final battle on this earth .... that the soul can emerge from it unharmed, that it gains eternal life if it prematurely passes away from earth or, if it perseveres on earth until the end, that it will be physically removed from it by the Lord to begin a new life on the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Did Jesus Christ redeem all people, or are all people redeemed? ....

B.D. 3277 from October 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

People read the Word but they do not understand its meaning, and thus misguided teachings due to false interpretations are given by those who want to serve Me, if they do not sincerely unite with Me and first ask for an explanation and, when they receive it, accept it without resistance. People single-mindedly adhere to My Word that I have delivered mankind from sin by My crucifixion .... But they do not comprehend the essence of the Word, they do not comprehend the significance of the act of Salvation. Consequently they do not understand what the human being has to do himself in order to join the flock of those who have been delivered from their guilt of sin by My blood.

I have died for all human beings .... providing they want to accept My act of Salvation .... I have not imposed any restrictions, but people set limitations when they do not acknowledge My act of Salvation. And these people exclude themselves from the circle of those for whom I have died on the cross. Consequently, only the sins of those can be forgiven who allow themselves to be saved through their faith in Me and My death on the cross, whereas the sins of those who reject Me and My act of Salvation are not forgiven, because they do not allow themselves to be purified by My blood, and because they do not want to belong to those for whom I have died. Once again human free will is decisive, and I abide by this free will. If people’s guilt of sin were forgiven without faith in Me and My act of love, then the human being would be placed into a state of freedom against his own will .... But this is in opposition to My order because it counteracts My justice as well as My love, since the person will not use this state to bond with Me nor will he ever regret his sin ....

My Word is truth, and no untruth can ever be found in the fact that I have died for all human beings, that I have redeemed all people from their sins .... But their free will has to decide whether they want to be redeemed, whether they want to accept My work of love, because I do not determine the will .... Therefore all of humanity could be free of sin if it believed in My act of Salvation, just as it is and will remain in deepest darkness and subject to their sins if it rejects Me as Redeemer of humanity. And for this reason most of humanity now lives in sin, it is without forgiveness because it no longer acknowledges Me, and thus My act of Salvation has become ineffective for humanity.

Hence the ‘forgiveness of sin’ should not be misunderstood, it is not applicable to those who are completely apart from Me; not that I Am pushing them away, instead they are distancing themselves from Me, they are fleeing from Me, Who is approaching them and constantly asks for their souls. I provide them with a gift of grace which liberates them from their sin and their guilt, but if they reject this it has no effect on them because they belong to those who are fighting on behalf of My adversary and who are therefore still controlled by him until they allow themselves to be saved by Me .... And thus it is wrong to describe My act of Salvation in a way which suggests that all people are beneficiaries of that which their free will could certainly acquire; but which free will can also throw away by rejecting it and by being totally without faith. Only the person who accepts My gift of grace will also become free of his sins, because I have carried his guilt for him, I have suffered for him and accepted the crucifixion.

Although I have died for everyone, not everyone accepts Me .... I took everyone’s guilt upon My shoulders, but not everyone feels guilty and therefore does not place their burden upon Me. And thus they will also be unable to purge their guilt, since it is too immense to do so themselves, because now they are also adding the guilt of rejecting My love .... But how can they hope for the forgiveness of their sins? How can people believe that they can become free of all guilt without their own contribution, without their own will? ....

My love’s sacrifice for you, the purification of all sin through My blood is an incomprehensibly significant blessing for you humans. But you must also want to receive My love, you should not reject it, otherwise it cannot take effect on you, otherwise I cannot redeem the guilt of sin, otherwise your sins will stay with you until you change your mind and acknowledge Me as your divine Saviour, Who died on the cross to redeem you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Guilt of sin .... God's mercy .... atonement ....

B.D. 3278 from October 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

A heaped measure of sins weighed upon humanity when Jesus Christ descended to earth to redeem it .... This is only comprehensible to those who know the reason for earthly life as a human being and the meaning and purpose of creation, for they know that the human being has travelled the path through creation for the sake of sin and should now free himself from it in the last stage in order to finally return to God again, from Whom he originally originated. But sin ties man down on earth, sin blocks his path to God, it makes the gulf between man and God unbridgeable, and thus sin destroys the purpose of earthly life, it pushes man back into the deepest depth from which he had already risen through his walk through creation. Before Christ's descent humanity was full of sin because it no longer recognized God, it was in dark spiritual night, it was devoid of all love and without any striving for perfection, it was far removed from God and therefore in greatest danger of sinking into the abyss, i.e., of taking the path which leads downwards, into eternal damnation, without knowledge and without love. This distance from God manifested itself in a way of life which completely contradicted the divine commandments, it was a way of life which contradicted the divine order, it was a life of obvious self-love, and such a life was full of sin and completely against God's will. And such a life could never ever result in people's liberation and a blissful life after death but spiritual death was the consequence, a state of extreme torment in the beyond which would never end because God's justice had to demand atonement for every sin and people's guilt of sin had already increased immeasurably so that it was hopeless for the beings to ever come close to God. For the being, however, distance from God means powerlessness, impotence, darkness and finally a hardening of its substance .... it means spiritual death for the being, a state that is far worse than non-being .... being extinguished .... But a passing away of the beingness is impossible, so also the torments of these beings are unbearable beyond all conceptions and never-ending .... And the eternal deity took pity on this and came to the aid of sinful humanity in that eternal love embodied itself in a human being Who, in His all-encompassing love, now took upon Himself the sins of humanity, Who thus released people from them by repenting for the guilt of sin by offering a sacrifice to God as atonement .... Who gave Himself, i.e. His life, in order to restore freedom to those, in order to make the kingdom of God accessible to them, which could only be entered in complete purity, without sin .... Thus He redeemed humanity from the guilt of sin, He took all guilt upon Himself, He suffered unspeakably and sacrificed His suffering and death on the cross to the eternal deity in order to give it satisfaction, in order to create a just compensation for people so that they could approach God again. And God accepted the sacrifice of the man Jesus .... He forgave people's guilt of sin for the sake of Jesus Christ, and the gates of the kingdom of heaven opened to all who accepted His gift of grace .... He redeemed humanity from sin and their guilt .... He offered them the last opportunity to achieve their earthly life purpose ....

(4.10.1944) His greater than great love sought to remove all obstacles from people's path which blocked their access to the eternal home; but the greatest obstacle was sin, for it robbed the human being of his strength and will. This was the consequence of sin, that people lay on the ground without strength and will and were unable to rise of their own accord because the burden of sin pressed them down. And that is why Jesus Christ took this burden from them, He placed it on Himself and carried it to the cross in order to atone for people's guilt of sin through His death. Humanity, which had become free through Jesus Christ, could now accept His sacrifice, but also spurn it .... The act of salvation has been accomplished for all people, yet God will never force the blessings of the act of salvation upon them against their will. But they will lose them if they have no desire to be redeemed .... Then sin will still weigh heavily on these people, and then they will inevitably be drawn into the abyss, for then they will reject God's love, and then they will still have to languish for eternities in their ignorance, their guilt of sin cannot be diminished, indeed, they will still accumulate many earthly sins on top of this guilt of sin, which God can only forgive them when they accept His gift of grace, thus when they can believe with conviction that God's infinite love had mercy on their sins and sent them a redeemer. Faith in this will cause people to repent of their guilt of sin, to appeal to Him for forgiveness and to hand themselves over to His grace and mercy, and thus the graces of the act of salvation will take effect in him. He will increase in strength of will and power and now be able to free himself from the power of God's adversary. And only the person will be able to speak of forgiveness of sin who consciously takes refuge under Christ's cross, confesses his guilt to Him and appeals to Him for mercy .... His prayer will be heard, his guilt will be forgiven ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of redemption .... suffering .... free will ....

B.D. 3279 from October 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The graces of the act of salvation are far too little utilized and therefore humanity has to suffer excessively as a result of the sins it now has to bear itself. Jesus Christ took humanity's guilt of sin upon Himself and thus also the consequences of sin .... the suffering with which people must atone and by which they shall be purified. If he now avails himself of the graces of the act of salvation, then he thus accepts the help which Jesus Christ assured him of, which He acquired for people through His death on the cross and which can be availed of by anyone who acknowledges Him and His act of salvation. This is a special grace, because according to divine justice every human being has to atone for his wrongdoing himself, but God was satisfied with the overwhelming love of a human being Who wanted to atone for people's sins with His death and accepted this sacrifice. People are now relieved of this atonement, sin is taken from them and also guilt .... thus also the consequence of sin .... suffering. But understandably only those people who, by acknowledging Christ and His work of redemption, place themselves in the circle of those for whom Jesus Christ died. He died for all, but he who does not acknowledge Him excludes himself; he rejects the grace .... the help .... He now also has to bear the guilt of sin alone, and thus he also has to accept suffering as a result of sin in order to atone for the first time and to change his mind through suffering, so that he will still turn to the divine redeemer, because without Him he cannot enter the kingdom of God. And thus only those people are redeemed who believe in Jesus Christ, for their sins are also forgiven. But people can never count on forgiveness of sins if they do not make use of the grace acquired through Christ's death because they do not acknowledge the divine redeemer, because they reject His act of salvation or are completely negative towards Him. For if the human being's free will were not decisive, i.e., if the act of salvation were effective on all people without distinction, so that the grace of it, the obvious help, would be granted to every human being, then all suffering would be unnecessary, then the world would already be redeemed from the hour Jesus Christ died on the cross, then all guilt of sin would be redeemed and this would mean spiritual ascent for the whole of humanity without exception. For sin would be eliminated from the world because Christ redeemed all people .... Free will, however, would have been overridden and thus becoming perfect would also have been made impossible .... But humanity is free to avail itself of the graces of the work of redemption through conscious acknowledgement and deepest faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer. Through this acknowledgement the human being places himself under Christ's cross, he belongs to those for whom He died and whom He released from their weakness of will through His death on the cross and who can now strive upwards and are constantly supported with strength and grace which is available to them without measure. For Jesus Christ redeemed the human being from the powerless, completely weakened state which was the result of sin, He delivered him from the power of His adversary as soon as he avails himself of the grace of the act of salvation, as soon as he believes in Him and recommends himself to Him and His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognition of sin .... acting of the will ....

B.D. 3280 from October 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

It is the will which gives birth to sin, and therefore the will must also be prepared to free itself from it. And therefore the human being must inevitably first come to the realization that he has sinned before he tackles the work of purification. He must be aware of his guilt before he wants to redeem it. And therefore there can be no forgiveness of sin before the human being has recognized his sinful state. For the sinner continues to sin as long as he lacks this realization. However, a person can only recognize his sin when love is awakened in him, love for God and for his neighbour against whom he has sinned. For only this makes him aware of the wrong, only when his heart is capable of love does he understand that he has violated love, that he has become sinful. And depending on the depth of his love he seeks to become free of this sin. Then his will becomes active, just as it was active before when committing the sin. If the human being has not gained this realization beforehand, then he will continue to sin right away .... thus let his will become active in a God-opposing way, and then he can never ever be released from his guilt, for this also requires the human being's will. And thus it is also understandable that redemption through Jesus Christ always presupposes the human being's will to allow himself to be redeemed, otherwise there would be no more sin in the whole world and satan’s power would be broken for ever .... Jesus Christ indeed overcame death and broke His adversary's power, He allowed His will as a human being to become extremely strong and accomplished the act of salvation by virtue of His love, yet always leaving people the freedom of their will to acknowledge His work and follow Him .... thus also allowing their will to become active for redemption. He does not exclude any human being from the blessings and graces of the act of salvation, yet no human being will be compelled to be redeemed, instead, he himself has to recognize that he is sinful and in this realization approach Him, the divine redeemer, and appeal to Him for forgiveness of his guilt .... Then the most incomprehensible act takes place .... God forgives his guilt, He forgives him for the sake of Jesus Christ, Who shed His blood for His fellow human beings and their sins .... God accepted the sacrifice of a loving human being, and countless people can go unpunished if they repent of their guilt and ask for forgiveness for the sake of Jesus Christ .... People cannot comprehend the magnitude of their guilt of sin towards God, and they would never be able to atone for their guilt on earth, and even in the beyond eternities would pass until the final redemption of their guilt if Jesus Christ had not taken pity on them and redeemed them from unspeakably severe suffering on earth and in the beyond through His blood, through a sacrifice of His love, which permeated Him and let Him become the saviour of the whole of humanity. However, no human being can claim redemption who does not turn to Him of his own free will, in the realization of his guilt, and asks for forgiveness .... thus does not acknowledge Him. For this is a prerequisite, because the human being's free will is respected and will also not be touched by God for eternity and because the human being is free and therefore has to decide for himself to whom he turns .... God or His adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Come all to Me ...."

B.D. 3281 from October 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Every soul is marked the path it has to take on earth in order to become free from its form, which means a fetter for it. This path need not be thorny if it is taken under God's guidance, if the human being does not walk alone on earth but constantly has eternal love as a companion, for then even the stony path will be easy to take; it will, as it were, float over all obstacles, it will take every bump without exerting itself, for the heavenly father helps His earthly child to reach its aim unharmed. But the soul itself must also contribute its share, it must declare its willingness before its embodiment to complete the path prescribed to it, it may not break it off, i.e. prematurely put an end to its life on earth, but it must take upon itself everything the earthly path entails. It must never forget that every human being's destiny has been so determined by divine love from eternity that it offers it abundant opportunities to attain highest maturity, and that every event is therefore necessary for this, even if it appears extremely painful to the human being. For God knows about every impulse of the human soul, and He has taken this into account in the individual's life. And the human being cannot change anything about it, he has to submit to his fate, yet he is entitled to prayer, and this prayer is able to avert the most difficult things if it is sent up with full faith, for such a prayer will be answered. For although the predetermined event does not fail to happen, God nevertheless gives the human being the strength to take it upon himself, and the soul derives its benefit from every event, it matures upwards and does not live earthly life in vain. Yet the soul should not be afraid of what is to come, for if it belongs to God it will not bear it alone but God will help it to bear it. Thus it will not feel the heaviness if it remains united with God through heartfelt prayer and unselfish neighbourly love. Then everything will be a blessing for it, whatever comes, because God's wisdom and love have determined the fate of every human being. God's wisdom and love protect the earthly child until the end, yet it must also consciously submit itself to God's divine love and wisdom and know and believe at all times that God can and will avert what is not absolutely necessary for the attainment of maturity of soul, and that He will also do so if the human being hands himself over to Him and appeals for His grace. For He is kind and merciful, He is like a father to His children and will not let any suffer if it faithfully trusts Him and recommends itself to His grace .... That His word may be fulfilled, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Father, Thy Will Be Done ...." struggles ....

B.D. 3282 from October 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In the hustle and bustle of the world the human being very easily loses contact with the spiritual world if he is not yet inner enough and allows himself to be captured by the world and its stimuli. The forces which struggle around him are limited or favoured in their activity by his will, and therefore no coercion can be exerted on the part of the spiritual forces, only a mental influencing can take place, which is often very difficult for the good forces when the human being lives in the midst of the world and takes little time for inner contemplation. The world is a danger for the soul and yet necessary for its free development, for it does not mature without resistance and struggles. Only in a certain state of maturity does it no longer need temptation, as soon as it has asserted itself against it and joined God or strives towards Him with all its senses. Then the spiritual world comes the closer to him, and the conscious connection with it secures the human being's ascent to the heights. But the human being is not spared inner struggles of the soul, for the forces of darkness do not give up their attempts to draw him down into their realm. Yet the soul can also grow stronger from this, for although it does not fall prey to the lower forces either, its desire and struggle for God becomes stronger the more it feels oppressed. And this also results in increased influx of grace, which always increases the soul's maturity. Even temptation is permitted by God because it can benefit the soul, so that the soul will not become lukewarm and sluggish in its striving upwards. The human being whose life passes in uniformity also usually remains on the same level of development if he is not exceptionally lovingly active, thus he fulfils his purpose of earthly life by himself and no longer needs the incentive for spiritual striving. However, a state of struggle is indisputably more beneficial for the soul, for earthly time is short and every opportunity should be utilized in order to reach the highest possible level of maturity. And therefore the human being should not allow himself to be depressed if he is afflicted by battles of the soul .... He should approach the heavenly father with everything that oppresses him and commend himself to Him and His grace .... he should wait patiently for His help, fully believing and trusting in His loving care .... he should be unconcerned, for the father in heaven does not leave His children in the distress of their souls. And there is nothing His omnipotence cannot banish and His love does not want to banish. Only firm faith in Him, in His omnipotence and love, should inspire the earthly child, for the father considers His children according to faith. And the human being should always pray: "Father, Your will be done ...." and his soul will be delivered from every adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's assistance .... right prayer .... hearing ....

B.D. 3283 from October 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Divine help will never be requested in vain because God's love will not deny it to anyone who approaches Him in prayer. And this awareness will also strengthen faith if it is still weak, only the human being must not want to determine the form of help himself but he must leave it up to God in which way He comes to the human being's aid. God will not always grant His help in accordance with the human being's will, because this is not always beneficial for the soul, yet He will not deny him His assistance, and the human being can always rely on his adversity being remedied. Therefore he should seriously give account to himself how he sends his prayer up to God .... whether it rises from the heart in all humility of heart, devoted to His sanctified will, trusting that it will be answered and in fullest faith in God's love and omnipotence, or whether it lacks this sincerity which God requires from the praying person in order to grant him His assistance. God's love inclines towards every earthly child which calls upon Him in its adversity, but God's love also considers the supplicant in all wisdom and will not grant him something which could harm his soul. The human being cannot always judge whether and when he is in spiritual distress; God, however, knows and therefore intervenes to help, even though this is not recognized by people. And thus the earthly adversity, which is the cause of the appeal to God, is imposed on the human being by Himself in order to avert spiritual adversity from him. And therefore a prayer cannot always be answered in the form the human being requests, instead, the purpose of the adversity must first be fulfilled before God can grant the human being's appeal. Yet He will not leave him without help .... And the human being must firmly believe in it, he must be fully convinced that God, in His love, will avert all adversity from His child if it takes refuge in childlike trust in the father in prayer .... For love does not deny itself, it is always ready to help. The deeper this faith takes root in a person, the easier he masters the world, for then nothing can frighten or worry him anymore, he feels so intimately united with the father in heaven that he presents everything that moves him to Him. He never feels alone and helpless but is always aware of the help of Him Who is love Himself and therefore constantly distributes love. And his prayer will always be heard because God will not let His child's faith be put to shame ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working for the kingdom of God .... Mission ....

B.D. 3284 from October 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

People who are permeated by the spirit of truth are chosen to spread this truth, and this is a responsible mission on earth, for receiving the truth is also a commitment to pass it on. Constant activity is expected of them, activity for the kingdom of God which conveys the truth to earth through these people. Yet the hearts of those chosen to do so are able to love, otherwise the spirit of God would be unable to take effect in them. And this ability to love lets the work of spreading the divine truth become a joyful task which they gladly and readily comply with. As soon as a person is imbued by divine truth he also loses the sense for the pleasures and goods of the world; he only derives joy from spiritual knowledge and therefore the spiritual work becomes his purpose in life. And yet it is a responsible task if he bears in mind that he has the opportunity to lead untold souls onto the right path, onto the path of realisation, and that he must make the most of this opportunity in every way .... As a representative of God he is placed into a field of activity where he can work exceedingly successfully; however, it requires a firm will, great love, patience and perseverance, it requires the keen activity of body and soul, both have to yield to the urging of the spirit, which constantly spurs them to do this work. Thus the human being must place himself entirely at God’s disposal Who informs the human being through His spirit about what his work consists of. As long as the soul is still in two minds it cannot hear the voice of the spirit clearly enough and must try to banish this state by unreservedly handing itself over to God and appealing to Him for his correct guidance in every way .... It must not anxiously speculate and think but must completely and trustingly hand itself over to the spirit’s guidance and it will always take the right path .... Then all events in life will approach a person so that he can accomplish his spiritual work, so that he can work for the kingdom of God.

This work is not obvious at first, for the time has not yet come for the working of the labourer’s of the Lord .... As yet His labourers are prepared in silence, and their activity, too, is limited; however, they shall even be active in silence until the time comes when great activity will start for the salvation of the souls which will suffer great adversity. But the spirit in the human being will guide him to where his work is needed. For time and again souls will be prepared who will likewise be responsible for working for the kingdom of God, for many labourers will be required in the vineyard of the Lord. Prior to this the divine truth will be conveyed to them, so that they will become competent labourers and be able to work for God in the coming time. For they will be needed by countless souls who still linger in spiritual darkness and will not be able to find the path to the light .... but where divine truth exists that is where light is shining, and if the light is given to people in the right way, if the truth is offered to them with love, many a heart will open up and allow itself to become enlightened. Being able to save souls for eternity is a happiness-inducing mission, it is a mission which is constantly accompanied by God’s blessing, and every labourer in the vineyard of the Lord can be assured of divine help by merely eagerly striving to speak on behalf of the kingdom of God on earth, for then he will always be supported by spiritual forces and his work will be blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Prayer and deeds of love are weapons against temptations ....

B.D. 3285 from October 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You can easily fall prey to the power of evil if you slow down in prayer and deeds of love. For he is lying in wait for every weakness in order to make you fall; he is using every opportunity to make you sinful, and he will certainly succeed if you lack the strength which you gain through prayer and deeds of love. You should therefore never allow yourselves to feel safe, for the enemy of your souls will also come to you in the disguise of a friend, he will try to win you over to have an easy game with you. And if you don't pay attention you will recognise him too late and will no longer be able to protect yourselves from his cunning and deceit. Prayer, however, will protect you from his power, for then you are establishing a connection with God, you are building an invincible barrier against evil.

This connection with God will equally be established through unselfish activities of love, which will give you the strength from God directly and then you will no longer need to fear the opponent. And this contact with God through prayer and deeds of love should never be disregarded, even if a person apparently is in no need of strength. For the enemy of souls will not easily give up his shameful plans, and what he cannot achieve today he will try tomorrow, until the constant temptations have weakened the person and he surrenders with almost no resistance, if the strength from God is not flowing to Him. But the human being can send a heartfelt prayer to God at any time, and this will always be granted, for God will not leave a human soul to his adversary just like that, for He is likewise struggling for every soul, trying to win it over for Himself. Consequently, there will be no shortage of strength from Him, providing the will of the person accepts it. But if the person has a weak will of resistance, then the adversary will have won his game.

And the Lord cautions you not to let him gain power over you, not to hand yourselves over to him through unkind actions and not to forget to make contact with God through prayer, for then you will make your earthly life more difficult for yourselves, because you will constantly have to defend yourselves and lack the strength to do so .... Life is an endless struggle, for the light is constantly fighting against the darkness, and in order to defeat the darkness the human being requires divine help, divine strength, which he will receive in abundance through prayer and actions of love. And this is why you should always be on your guard, for Satan's game of deceit is dangerous, and he will be victorious if the human being slackens in striving to ascend. Therefore, be vigilant and remain in prayer, and God's adversary will always meet with resistance, for then you will have God Himself as your most loyal protection, Who will never ever surrender you to the enemy of your souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dissolving the soul shell .... necessity ....

B.D. 3286 from October 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Anyone who closes himself off to the word of God is still surrounded by a shell which stops the effect of the divine word. He cannot feel anything, God's emanation of love certainly touches him, yet due to his own immaturity the soul is insensitive to it, and it remains so until it is active in love itself. The word of God is intended to stimulate activity in love, and therefore it first has to be received with the ear and conveyed to the heart through the human being's will. If the heart is now ready for love activity then the human being accepts the word of God ever more joyfully and hungrily; but if he is incapable of love then he rejects it, he closes himself off to its effect, and the soul remains in dense encasement to its own disadvantage. The strength of divine love, which is conveyed to the human being through the word, cannot penetrate this envelopment and consequently cannot awaken the spirit in the human being's soul to life either. The spirit of God cannot make contact with the spiritual spark in the human being and the human being always remains isolated from spiritual strength. Nevertheless, the word of God shall be offered to him again and again, his intellect shall be stimulated even though his heart remains inactive and unwilling. He shall be prompted to think by love being preached to him again and again. The soul of a rejecting person is to be regarded as an unfree, unhappy being which cannot help itself from its bondage alone, and it should be the constant endeavour of fellow human beings to bring help to this soul. The fact that this help consists of stimulating the human being into loving activity therefore results in the necessity to repeatedly bring the word of God to him in love and patience. Every opportunity is to be used, and a servant of God should never tire in this work, for the hardship of the souls is exceedingly great, which walk along in the night of the spirit and cannot register any progress in their higher development. People should be admonished to at least make an attempt to work in love so that they will feel the success in themselves and become aware of the strength which arises from loving activity. Then they will also listen more to the word of God and, even if they don't want to admit it yet, nevertheless think about it, and this is already a step forward. The strength of God must be supplied to the human being, since without it he is weak and unable to mature spiritually. As soon as the will to do good is present, strength flows to the human being through prayer. But if this will is first to be turned towards God, the strength must also flow to him because he is too weak to change himself and his will. And this strength is the divine word .... but it can only become effective when it is willingly accepted. And therefore the love of the fellow human being must come into play, for what is offered in love does not easily miss its effect .... The fellow human being must lovingly try to explain to the person the consequences of a loveless way of life and present to him the successes of a life of love which he can achieve himself if he does not close himself off to the word of God, and he himself must set a good example by practicing the life of love he preaches himself, by giving love and thereby awakening reciprocal love again, and he will achieve success by the fact that a good example encourages imitation. And once the human being has made the attempt, every good deed will result in further deeds of love, for then the strength from God will already be active in the human being .... love makes him happy, and now the human being will also open himself up to the word of God more and more, for it will gain life, it will no longer merely be words which touch the ear but will penetrate the heart .... the cover which surrounds the soul will become increasingly weaker until it is completely dissolved by the working of love and the spirit will then awaken to life. And now it can be constantly active .... now the word of God no longer penetrates the human being from outside but it is offered to him from within, from his spirit; the spirit teaches him and forcefully presents to him the necessity of a way of life according to God's will. The spirit impels him to activity, to work in love, the spirit guides him into truth .... He now receives the divine gospel through the spirit within him. And he will be instructed in the divine teaching of love as well as in the most profound spiritual truths, so that he can now acquire knowledge which is no longer imparted to him from outside but which is offered to him by divine love itself through the word which the spirit in the human being receives from God Himself and now imparts to the soul, which is extremely grateful as soon as it has shed its shell and entered into fusion with the divine spirit within itself. For only now does the human being live when soul and spirit work together ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prematurely get free of the spiritual .... last resolution ....

B.D. 3287 from October 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Behold, you are approaching a time of complete dissolution, put into action initially by the human being himself who lets his will become active in a destructive and annihilating way, and finally carried out by God's will and through His power, because the end has come which God has determined since eternity. This dissolution can mean an accelerated maturing of the spirit if matter is previously allowed to be of extraordinary service, i.e., if the dissolution of matter is the result of increased utilisation of that which serves man for benefit. Then the passing away of this also corresponds to God's will and is advantageous for the spiritual that is sheltered in it. However, if matter is destroyed or completely annihilated before it has matured through service .... if human will of destruction extends to things which have not yet fulfilled their purpose on earth, which therefore are still at the beginning of the spiritual's development therein, an act of violence takes place which is contrary to God's will and which has an extremely detrimental effect on the spiritual. For this becomes free without having matured and can now let off steam, and that in a way which is harmful for the already more mature spiritual, for human beings and animals. For the still immature spiritual oppresses those by burdening people extraordinarily and turning their mind to matter to an increased degree, i.e., the spiritual constantly brings itself to mind in the form of prematurely destroyed matter, which the human being now strives for all the more covetously. Only people of more mature spirit do not let themselves be pressed by those because they have already overcome matter before and are no longer dependent on it to the extent that they believe they cannot do without it. But the raging of the spiritual that has become free increases more and more, for people do not stop their works of destruction and the decline of spiritual development becomes ever more apparent, so that God Himself commands an end by dissolving every form from the lowest to the highest degree of development through His will. Everything on earth will be destroyed, even the surface of the earth will dissolve and be transformed into completely new creations. For now a new course of development begins for the entire spiritual, which in the end has not yet attained the maturity to be able to enter the kingdom of light. God Himself completes in love and wisdom what man has tackled in hatred and lack of love and in ignorance of the consequences. Human will is reprehensible and causes the greatest spiritual damage. But the divine will puts a stop to it, and His work of destruction is at the same time a correction of that which was previously out of all divine order .... For what He does is exceedingly good and wise and always promotes spiritual ascent development, whereas people's actions are caused by unkindness and disregard all divine order and are therefore sinful. Nevertheless, the God-desiring human being can still be beneficially active in the last time of dissolution by still helping many things to be of service in accordance with divine order, by being active himself and tirelessly creating in helpful neighbourly love in order to be able to provide his fellow human being with objects which are suitable for his purpose, and thus he helps the spiritual substance to mature so that it is no longer completely immature at the time of the last dissolution. He thereby gives the spiritual, which has become free through human will to destroy, the opportunity to embody itself again, he alleviates the hardship of the spiritual as well as of the human being who needs earthly objects for daily life; and he also helps himself to greater maturity of soul, as soon as love for his neighbour drives him to earthly activity. As soon as the human being has knowledge he will also understand the last work of destruction on God's part, whereas the ignorant human being is unable to reconcile it with a creator Who is loving, wise and omnipotent. And yet, all of God's activity is based on profound wisdom and greater than great love, and this last work of dissolution is also an act of God's love which intervenes when the spiritual substance is in utmost danger of losing itself. Then He binds it anew in order to give it the opportunity to reach the degree of development again, which earns it freedom of choice again, so that it will make better use of it if it has failed on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The word enlivened by the spirit ....

B.D. 3288 from October 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

It is the spirit that gives life .... The word alone is dead if the spirit does not enliven it .... And if you hear the word as a dead word you cannot draw strength from it, for the strength is God's part which only expresses itself through the spirit. Yet the word is spiritually enlivened, that is, if you not only hear it with your ear but also with your heart, which contains the divine spirit, you will feel its strength, the word will speak to you and you will be filled with divine spiritual strength. The word alone only speaks to the intellect, but the spirit in the word speaks to the heart .... the word alone only has earthly value, but the word enlivened by the spirit will last for eternity. For the spirit is from God, and thus the word enlivened by the spirit is God’s word, whereas people certainly also have the word but it is only the product of intellect which passes away as soon as the human being as such passes away on earth. Dead word is everything that only touches the body but leaves the soul unimpressed; the spiritually enlivened word, however, is felt by the soul because it speaks to the spirit in the human being. The divine spirit makes contact with the spiritual spark in the human being and expresses itself to the soul in the word which, however, as spiritually enlivened, has the deepest effect on the human being whose spiritual spark has established contact with the father-spirit. And this word gives life, it awakens to life and can never be considered a dead word because it lets the person become active who listens to this word. God’s word will never be a dead word, only the life in it can remain unrecognized by the human being as long as he makes no effort to look for the spirit in it, for it only reveals itself to the seeking human being who, without any external influence, tries to penetrate the kingdom which is the home of the spirit, thus he unconsciously looks for the divine spirit .... and this spirit reveals itself through the living word .... through the word which the spirit of God conveys to the spiritual spark in the human being with great love, and thus this word must also become effective, for everything that lives is constantly active, and only activity testifies to life. But if the word is permeated by God's spirit then it can never remain without effect, and then its life becomes evident.

The word, which is enlivened by the spirit, therefore carries strength within itself and now remains effective for eternity, but only if it touches the human being's heart when it is received, not just the ear. It can indeed also be received intellectually but then it will not yet penetrate the human being's soul, for the latter only accepts that which is conveyed to it from within, from the spirit. But the word, which reaches the heart, establishes the connection with the spiritual spark in the human being, and thus the soul can then be instructed by it, thus receive the strength which lies in the living word. As long as people don't know the difference between heart and intellect it is incomprehensible to them that the human being receives profound knowledge from within. And therefore the word of God, which is truly blessed with His strength, can be offered countless times and yet it cannot emanate its strength because the human being does not open his heart, because the life of the word, the spirit, does not find access to the spiritual spark in the human being, and then the word, although it is alive, remains without effect and fades away like a dead word in people's ears, just like a word which is spoken without thought, which is not permeated by the life of the spirit. But as soon as a word is spoken in deep love, it is also alive. For love is God's strength which always awakens the spirit in a person. If the word of God, which is pure strength and love from God, is also offered by people who love and try to radiate their love to their fellow human beings, then it must also take effect on them, for the strength of love penetrates the shell of the spirit which is still dormant in the human being and awakens it to life .... The strength of the word now also brings about the activity of the spirit in the human being, for the strength of the word is the spirit of God's spirit which makes contact with the spiritual spark in the human being and then God's emanation can touch the human being's soul unhindered and gives the human being the ability and willingness to be active in God's will. But the heart must always open first, i.e. the human will must be ready for divine activity. And this is the purpose of the word of God, that it stimulates the human being's will by first being offered to the ear and the intellect, so that it then carries the life of the spirit within itself through the human being's will, so that it comes alive and works in and on the human being, so that he shapes himself according to God's will, so that he transforms his initially oppositional nature and shapes himself according to God's image .... so that he becomes love in order to be able to join the eternal love forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Measures taken by the world against spiritual aspiration ....

B.D. 3289 from October 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Worldly endeavours will always meet with the approval of the children of the world, but those who are inclined towards the spiritual kingdom will condemn them, for they are directed against everything spiritual and therefore mean a threat to those who strive spiritually. The children of the world, however, do not approve of spiritual endeavours, they feel hindered by them and consequently agree that the latter should be fought. And so people will soon divide into children of the spirit and children of the world, only the latter will outnumber the former and therefore push through their measures because the others are too weak to rebel against them. And this results in a strong oppression of those who have faith and therefore strive for the spiritual kingdom, and they are exposed to many sufferings and tribulations for the sake of their faith. The children of the world are completely faithless, they believe themselves to be enlightened and spiritually superior to others, and thus they feel justified in taking action against them and eradicating all faith, for they don't know what blessings they are forfeiting for themselves through their faithlessness. They only think and strive for earthly goods and don't consider their souls because they don't believe that the soul will enter the spiritual kingdom after its earthly life. They do not recognize a spiritual kingdom because it cannot be proven. And to draw the greatest possible advantages from earth for the body is man's only concern .... And thus both parties oppose each other, the one small in number but strong through faith in an almighty God Who will stand by them in His love .... and the large mass, which certainly appears strong on the outside but is too weak to fight against faith in order to dissuade the small flock or to make them compliant to their wishes. For power and strength are with those who fight with God and for God .... But the children of the world will proceed ever more harshly the more steadfastly those who strive spiritually persevere in their faith. For the children of the world are also satan’s children, and he uses all means to snatch His followers away from God. And therefore he also makes use of the world and its charms .... A time of most bitter adversity will come for the believers which they could certainly easily remedy if they would submit to the demands of the world. And therefore it will cost a struggle to remain faithful to God in view of the temptations by the world and the extremely meagre living conditions the believers have to suffer. But the world will not be able to uproot the followers of the faith. They have already overcome the world and no longer take pleasure in things that are transient and do not come from the spiritual kingdom. They have tasted the graces of the spiritual kingdom, and they will never again give them away for earthly trinkets, for perishable goods and everything that belongs to the world. For even in times of bitterest adversity the gifts of grace flow to them from the spiritual kingdom, and these compensate them for all restrictions and tribulations which arise from worldly measures. The enemy onslaught will indeed be very fierce and require convinced faith, but the small flock of God's fighters will be in close union with Jesus Christ and He will lead them out of the battle victoriously. For He provides them with strength, He leads them into battle and helps them to bear all adversity so that they can never be overcome, no matter how strong and brutal the opponent is. For the greatest strength lies in faith in Jesus Christ, and they fight with the weapons of love, and against these the adversary is powerless .... Anyone who loves the world will also fall prey to the world, yet those who strive towards the spiritual kingdom are no longer tempted by the world, and thus they only receive gifts from the spiritual kingdom, but they are also supported by the forces of this kingdom, and their power is truly greater than earthly power. The time of battle is short and thus also the time of suffering for the believers .... Yet they carry off the victory, for they will live forever, while the children of the world find their death physically and spiritually .... yet never cease to be .... And this spiritual death is extremely agonizing, and they owe it to the world which struck their souls in fetters and from which they were unable to break away .... They sought the world and found death. But the believers will overcome the world and find eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Temptations of the world ....

B.D. 3290 from October 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You will have to be careful not to fall prey to the temptations of the world if you are not yet strong enough in faith. For the hostilities of the world are especially directed towards you, it seeks to win you over and to persuade you to fall away from God, and therefore you must arm yourselves with the shield of faith and steel it beforehand so that it will stand firm. Anyone who is still weak should struggle for strength of faith, he should not stop asking for strength and grace and his will should always be turned towards God; he should practice love because strength will flow into him and he will then be able to withstand all temptations by the world. So love is always the first .... incessantly being active in love will let you grow in realization, you will attain convinced faith and this will have an unshakeable strength, love is a weapon which overcomes everything and forces the strongest enemy to the ground, because God Himself is active in the loving human being. And again and again it has to be pointed out that the coming time will bring you abundant opportunities to practice neighbourly love, and that you must not fail then if you want to survive the horrors of the time, if you want to go through this last battle unharmed in body and soul. Nothing else can replace the strength of love and nothing else can earn you this strength than active neighbourly love, as energetic care for the soul and body of your fellow human being. If you practice this, the time of tribulation need not frighten you, for then you will have the strength within you to master all opposition. But as soon as you lack love you will also waver in faith, because faith without love is dead and a dead faith is without conviction and without strength. Then the world will easily succeed in making you inclined towards its temptations; earthly life will seem incomparably more appealing to you, for you have nothing more blissful to offer it .... the delights of a profound bond with God through love .... Then you will fall away and be lost for eternity, for the final decision is upon you and you will only be able to make it correctly if you believe deeply and steadfastly. And therefore God warns you urgently of the temptations of the world, and again and again He admonishes you to love .... He constantly shows you the path you have to take in order to emerge victoriously from the last time of battle; yet there is only one path, the path of love .... And if you walk this path you need not fear anything, no matter what may come. But without love the path is difficult or, if you leave it, dangerous for your soul .... And prayer is always at your disposal. If you are in danger of becoming weak, call upon God for His help, present your adversity to Him and appeal to Him for grace and strength, and He will truly not let your prayer go unheard if you fear for your soul's salvation and take refuge in Him. And you will receive the strength to be lovingly active and then use it in the right way .... Always bear in mind that you cannot become blessed without love but that in love you will find the fullest substitute for everything the world can offer you. For it is only pseudo goods which you desire .... for their sake don't give up the goods of eternity which make you deeply happy and turn you into free, blissful beings. Therefore fight the short battle with God, i.e. remain in constant contact with God in love for your neighbour, and you will emerge victorious from this battle and eternally enjoy your victory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's voice .... work of satan .... battle of faith ....

B.D. 3291 from October 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

A little while longer and your thinking will be forcibly directed upwards, you who are only entangled in earthly matter and don't want to detach yourselves from it. But you will have to do it, for God Himself will take everything from you in order to direct your mind towards Himself. You humans do not benefit from the difficult time which has come upon you; you do not ask yourselves what is the cause of adversity and affliction, and thus you do not change because you do not recognize yourselves. And thus the adversity of the time has not yet had an influence on your soul's life, and therefore God resorts to more severe means in order to change your mind .... He takes away everything your heart is attached to, both people and possessions .... And this in the shortest possible time .... And thus He shows Himself in a way which seemingly lacks divine love. Yet you humans want it that way yourselves, for you did not recognize God's love when it expressed itself .... You did not accept His word, which is God's emanation of love, and in your blindness you did not recognize that God Himself met you in His word .... Thus He comes in bitter suffering, although again not recognized by those who are bound by matter, for they do not seek God and thus cannot find Him either. He reveals Himself again, but in the most painful way .... He comes in the raging of the forces of nature and lets His voice sound, mighty and terrifying, and all shall hear Him. And where this voice will sound there will be great misery afterwards, for He will sensitively strike those people who do not want to bow down to Him under the law of love and who therefore shall feel His severity. For the law of love is disregarded to the point of inhumanity .... God has always and constantly taught love, His adversary preaches hatred, God gave truth to people, His adversary interspersed it with lies and error, and now the adversary gains the upper hand because people listen to him while they reject God. They disregard love, they no longer strive for truth, and all their actions and thoughts are influenced by God's adversary, so that the human being is no longer receptive for the truth from God. And yet He reveals Himself to them so that they shall recognize Him. For His working will be so obvious that a higher power would have to be recognized in it .... But now questions and doubts arise about the existence of God, Who Himself destroys that which He created .... And this uncertainty is used by God-rejecting people to initiate the fight against faith, for this the work of destruction by the forces of nature offers them a welcome tool .... And the people of the affected areas are the first to believe their explanations .... they discard their old faith and strive with increased strength towards matter again, i.e. they seek to restore the former conditions as quickly as possible .... And this time is characterized by the most severe spiritual battles .... For now people are running riot ....

He who is in possession of grace, who turns his gaze upwards and accepts the grace flowing towards him, will probably keep away from the goings-on and watch the course of earthly events with horror. For he recognizes God, and he recognizes the God-opposing nature of human activity. And he seeks to enlighten wherever he is given the opportunity. But he will have little success because the voice of the world drowns him out and is rather respected. But if God lets His voice be heard they can still become attentive and remember these admonitions of their fellow human beings, and this can save their souls. For the time of suffering afterwards, the hardship and meagre way of life, the seemingly difficult struggle for existence can have a favourable effect on the human being insofar as he loses his love for matter and learns to recognize spiritual striving as the purpose of life. But the majority will strive more than ever to possess the goods of the world and will spare no means to acquire them. And then the unkindness of the world will first come to light unveiled. And this will mean a terrible life for those people who are still capable of love, for they will be exposed to constant threats and hostility and will not be able to defend themselves because they are weak and powerless in the face of those who live at the will of the world .... The time will be hard but also bearable where God's strength can become effective, where people's will strives towards God and the human being requests strength from God .... for God does not rely on His own, and the greater the adversity the closer and more tangible His help is. And by this fellow human beings will also recognize the strength of faith and, if they are not completely hardened, become thoughtful. God's love courts every soul and makes it truly possible for it to come to realization. But since the human being has to decide in free will, he can only be affected in the form of suffering as soon as he does not listen to the gentle admonitions and warnings. And since people do not pay attention to His word, which easily helps them to realize, He must now bring His power to bear and try to persuade people to turn back in a painful way. This is the last resort before the end and therefore also particularly painful for countless people, yet it has been planned since eternity because the whole of humanity stands in a God-opposing will which cannot be broken by God's gentleness and goodness. And if this event does not bring about a change of will there is no longer salvation for the souls on this earth and they have to bear the consequences of their rebelliousness. The soul has to walk the path through the creation of the new earth again and take upon itself an unspeakably agonizing fate until, after an infinitely long time, it is allowed to make a free decision of its will again ....

Amen

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Filial love .... Paternal love ....

B.D. 3292 from October 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Become like little children, then you will be able to love Me like a child loves its Father. Don't oppose My will but let Me guide you; take hold of My Fatherly hand and follow Me without resistance and with total confidence that I will guide you correctly. In that case you will be absolved from all responsibility, for the Father will not hold His child to account if it always remains close to Him and, with childlike obedience, accepts the Father's will. Then I will care for My children with greater than great love, I will draw them to My heart and will never let them go from Me again, for then they will be My Own forever. I ask for nothing else but their love, and if you regard Me as your Father, if you feel like My children, love will indeed be kindled in you and you will want to belong to Me and thus also fulfil My will. The child knows that it will find the right protection with its Father, it knows that it will be watched over and provided with everything it needs, for the Father's love will not leave its child in adversity, and because the child knows that it is loved by Him it will love Him in return .... This is why I want you to recognise Me as your Father, because I long for your love and want to win you over for Me. You have belonged to Me since the beginning, yet only when you hand yourselves over to Me will you be My children in truth, otherwise you will merely be My living creations, you certainly came forth from Me but you are not united with Me in love. Only love will turn you into My children to whom I want to be a real Father .... Only love for Me will establish the right relationship and this love is what I seek to attract for an infinitely long time. A child who loves Me with all its heart will find absolute bliss at My Fatherly heart, for this beats in ardent love for this child and anyone who possesses My love is happy beyond measure, even if the body does not feel it as yet while it still lives on earth. Nevertheless, the soul feels the strength of My love and, in constant longing, turns to Me. It strives towards Me and desires My Word .... For love seeks the union, and since the earthly child cannot see Me, it wants to hear Me and therefore attentively listens to My Word sounding in its heart. And I will speak Words of love and of comfort to My child, Words of strength and of grace .... I will give to it what it desires, light and strength .... so that it shall grow strong and its love shall burst into a bright flame. Then I will draw close to it and pull it up to Me .... I will lift it from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of light as soon as it no longer desires anything else on earth other than My love .... then it will be ready for the spiritual kingdom, for if it has love, it will have become like Me and need never separate itself from Me again, because it will be united with Me for all eternity since it will have kindled its love for Me in its heart. And so you shall look up to Me like children, then you will also be able to love Me like children and desire Me with all your heart, and then My Fatherly love will belong to you and you will be blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Sin .... will .... prayer ....

B.D. 3293 from October 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You will never stumble in your will to do the right thing, for then I will protect you from it. But if you trust in your own strength, then your will is not meant for Me, then you already exclude Me from your thinking, and then you can also easily sin. Everything that goes against My laws, against the order I have established, is sin. If you desire Me and therefore your will is directed towards Me and towards unification with Me, then you will not do anything which goes against My order, for since I know your will I will not leave you powerless to carry it out. But if you sin, then you draw on My adversary's strength and must also have turned to him beforehand through evil thoughts, words or works. Anyone who believes he can sin although his will is turned towards Me does not know about My love for all My creatures. I can certainly test him and let him go through temptations but his will can always overcome them because My grace is at his disposal, thus he need never sin as long as he strives to reach Me. He can certainly become weak in temptation, i.e. he can feel weak, but he need never fall because a longing thought towards Me already provides him with the strength to resist the temptation. And thus you humans always have prayer in every temptation, in every adversity and danger of the soul. If your heart longs for Me, if your will is only meant for Me alone, then every temptation of the world can approach you or tempt you to overturn the order .... a heartfelt sigh to Me for strength will let you victoriously overcome everything. Therefore do not believe that, if your will is good, you must sin .... For in sin the strength of the one who is My adversary predominates. But you only give him strength through your will, which then no longer applies to Me but has turned away from Me. Sin is disregarding My commandments, acting against them .... Sin is everything that destroys and does not build up, that causes hatred and lack of love and can therefore be recognized by every person as bad, i.e. contrary to God's will .... Sin is a conscious doing of that which violates My commandments .... However, you will never be forced to do so but your free will drives you to do so, and this can indeed be extremely weakened but it can be strengthened by Jesus Christ .... Thus you will never need to be weak-willed if you call upon Me, the divine redeemer, for strength. You will never need to sin if you surrender your will to Me .... I remedy your weakness, you are constantly under My protection and sin has no power over you as long as you yourselves do not concede it .... What a mistake that you must sin, although your will is good .... The weakness of will can be remedied at any time, for I died the death on the cross for it .... but anyone who does not acknowledge Me will also hardly turn his will towards Me, and evil has power over him, and he can fall and sin because he does not know what it means to place his will under Mine and to be cared for by My love and supplied with My strength from hour one. Sin is an open confession of turning away from Me, which indeed can also be accomplished by a person who strives to be good; but at the moment of sin he has always given his will to evil. And since his will is free he will not be hindered by Me as soon as he neglects to appeal to Me for the grace of increased will and strength to resist. For as long as he surrenders to the adversary My strength is ineffective, i.e., he rejects it himself and draws the strength from that one. Then he sins by acting against My order, by disregarding My commandments of love and thus transgressing against them. But anyone who does not want to sin always has My grace at his disposal and his will, which desires Me, guarantees him the supply of this strength. For where would My love be if I wanted to make an earthly child's serious endeavour to be good more difficult by leaving it without help? How do you imagine this love which lets a person fall if it can hinder him? Which would let a person sin whose will is to live according to My good pleasure? Sin is always My adversary's work, whereas I want to protect all My creations from sin and also do so if they have given their will to Me. Therefore, anyone who sins has given himself into My adversary's power of free will and must answer for it. And the greater his sin is the further he is in the realization that he has the possibility to resist sin and thus the evil power through prayer, through the request of strength .... For then his sin is conscious, and the magnitude of his guilt is correspondingly ....

Amen

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Source of life .... source .... living water ....

B.D. 3294 from October 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

When the fountain of life opens, the source from which divine wisdom flows, when God's grace pours out upon a human being in the form of His word, this is an act of God's greatest love, which cannot be valued highly enough .... God Himself, the most perfect being, descends to earth in His word .... He lets His spiritual emanation emanate upon people, as it were, He gives them a gift which originates directly from Him, which has its origin in perfection itself and is intended for the still imperfect beings. And this gift of grace is founded in His infinite love, which never decreases and therefore also constantly wants to make people happy .... yet how little it is recognized and how few are therefore granted the blessings of His word .... What should make humanity happy as the greatest gift of grace is left unnoticed, and thus a delicious drink of rennet inexorably flows out of the eternal source which remains unused. Humanity is in the greatest earthly misery and does not heed the spiritual consolation. It is in spiritual distress and does not recognize the means that sets it free from its .... It passes by the source of grace from which it could refresh and strengthen itself, and it continues to wander in the arid desert without strength until it sinks down exhausted. It has a mirage before its eyes, it sees the world and expects earthly pleasures there. And people chase after this illusion, and that is why they do not see the born of life along the way, but hurry past it. Yet the divine source of grace will always open up in secret, yet it will present itself to every wanderer who hungers and thirsts to refresh himself, for everyone has access to it who seeks it off the broad path. And even if all the wanderers of the world were to camp at this spring, it will not run dry, for what originates in God never ends .... And what has its origin in God can only be divine and change again into divine beings which refresh themselves at the spring of eternal love. Yet His divine gift meets with little approval, even if it is offered so conspicuously that it can be recognized by all people as a gift from God. People do not desire it because they lack faith in the strength of what is offered to them from the spiritual kingdom. They have not yet tasted the drink of rennet and therefore do not know of its efficacy .... They still deceive themselves in their strength and don't know about their weakness of will, otherwise they would fetch the strength from the source of eternal love .... And so the living water flows out of the spring, and it fails in its purpose .... it dries up in the sand, in the desert, it does not revive .... The word of God is conveyed among men, and only a few accept it. The power of the divine word cannot take effect because no-one wants to accept it, because people don't desire it and don't recognize God's gift of grace as such. And in weakness of will and darkness of spirit they go along without fulfilling their purpose of earthly life, for they lack the strength to do so. They lack faith in God's merciful love for His living creations or they would find in it the explanation for God's extraordinary working which visibly appears through the presentation of His word in its purest form .... However, anyone who does not recognize this working of God can also be offered the word of God elsewhere, he will not accept it, for the word which God has blessed with His strength is truly most easily recognizable and exceedingly comprehensible to every person. Anyone who passes by it will hardly have access to the spiritual kingdom, for the source is hidden from him and he will not feel the strength of the living water because he does not desire it. God's gift of grace is a delicious gift, yet the giver wants to be recognized and asked for His gift of grace, then He will water the thirsty and feed the hungry from the fountain of life, so that strength will flow to them and they will step out of the darkness of night into the light of day, so that they will be strengthened for their earthly way of life and can effortlessly cover the long path which leads upwards towards the eternal home ....

Amen

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Comfort .... God’s word proof of His love ....

B.D. 3295 from October 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

If you take the life of the soul seriously every day and every hour will be beneficial for you, for I consider you according to your will. And if you believe that you are in danger, spiritually or earthly, you should always bear in mind that I Myself am close to you because you have already proven yourselves to be Mine through your will, because you therefore belong to those who want to be Mine, who desire to be under My fatherly protection. And I do not leave these children in adversity but save them as soon as it is beneficial for the soul. I have tremendous love for you, however, this also involves a certain amount of suffering which has to be imposed on your soul in order to mature. And therefore hardship cannot be completely excluded from your life, you must take a measure of it upon yourselves because it is necessary for the purification of your soul, and therefore you must not regard the suffering as a lack of love and believe that I have abandoned you, instead I am closer to you than ever in adversity and strengthen your soul so that it overcomes the hardship. And therefore you will be led out again and again as soon as you humbly accept everything I allow for your soul's salvation. Love for you determines your fate, and this love will not leave you helpless if you need help. Therefore always trust in My love and don't let yourselves be depressed by the hardship and suffering of the time, for I will end it at the right time .... Amen

My word is the most valuable possession you have on earth .... And this word shall be everything to you, for I Myself am in the word. Therefore, if you have Me Myself you should no longer strive for anything else, otherwise you will share your love for Me with whatever you desire. But if I am with you in the word, the highest measure of grace is at your disposal, and thus your longing for the goods of the world shall then be satisfied. For what are these compared to My word, to the evidence of My heartfelt love for you, to the gift of strength and grace .... You have the highest when you have My word and should desire nothing more apart from it. For with My word you also receive the promises that I will take care of your physical and spiritual well-being. And since My word is truth, don't worry about what your body needs but only about what is helpful for your soul. And be satisfied with My word, which is truly the most precious thing My love can offer you on earth. If you have My word you will also not lack the strength to master your earthly life, for then you will have Me Myself, and thus you must nevertheless be powerful and be able to successfully overcome the battle of life. Let nothing take away your faith and confidence that My word is the only source of strength from which you may draw daily and hourly and which will never leave you unfortified. For if you accept My word then you accept Me Myself, and where I am there can no longer be spiritual or earthly adversity, even though you seem to be in the latter. Let Me be with you in the word and your life will only be a constant upward development; earthly adversity, however, will no longer affect you, for then you will hold your body in low esteem if the soul is united with Me. You have a sure proof of My love for you in your hands, and My love is truly the most delicious thing you can attain .... it takes hold of you and never leaves you until you are completely united with Me and can leave earth. It won't be long now and earthly life will be over .... But the time before that is a time of struggle which you have to endure. But if I am with you in the word it shall not frighten you but only make you courageous, for I have assured you of My help and will not abandon you. And no matter how much you are surrounded by threatening dangers, as long as you receive My word you also know that I Myself am with you and that you need not fear anything which appears threatening to you. But you must not desire anything else either in order not to fall prey to the power of the one who tries to approach you by awakening your desires for earthly pleasures and earthly possessions. Disregard everything that still belongs to earth and only strive towards Me with all your senses, with all your love .... shape yourselves into love so that I can completely take abode in you, listen within so that you hear Me, and accept My word as a pledge of My love which applies to you forever and will also lead you through all dangers of body and soul .... For My word is truth, and My word promises eternal life to all who faithfully receive it into their heart and live accordingly. Rest and refresh yourselves with what My love offers you and ask for nothing else if you have My word and can build yourselves up on it ....

Amen

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What is spiritual knowledge .... truth ....

B.D. 3296 from October 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

To push people's thinking into a different direction against their will would be completely useless for their souls. They must make an effort to change out of their innermost impulse, only then will a change of thinking also take place, and only then is the truth to be conveyed to them so that they can examine it themselves, i.e. take a stand on it and, with a serious will, also recognize it as truth. It is a wrong assumption that a person's intellect cannot join the pure truth and that the person therefore cannot be held responsible because he is endowed by God with the gift of intellect which makes it impossible for him to accept the truth .... As soon as the human being uses this gift correctly, that is, as soon as he makes use of it in order to come close to the eternal divine, he will also have the ability to distinguish between good and evil with his intellectual thinking, and as soon as he now affirms good and denies evil he will also affirm pure truth because it is from God, just as he will deny error and lies as the work of God's adversary. And the recognition of truth as such and of error is also to be regarded as affirmation and denial .... The human being who wants the good will also intellectually recognize as good that which has its origin in God. But if his will resists a serious examination or if he is prejudiced against spiritual knowledge imparted to him, then his feeling for good and evil is still poorly developed and he will also resist accepting the truth. He also does not stimulate his intellectual thinking because he does not seriously take a stand but rejects it because he does not want to accept it. And then he cannot be instructed or changed in his rejection .... his will turns against it, and this decides. He is not yet mature for truth, otherwise he would desire it and hold on to it if it is offered to him. For the desiring one also recognizes it for what it is. The one who desires the truth also desires God at the same time, no matter how he imagines the eternal deity. He recognizes it and turns to it through his desire, for God and truth are one. But anyone who denies God also denies the truth, anyone who does not seek God also does not seek the truth, and thus he will never penetrate spiritual knowledge because it does not exist for him. There is a knowledge which eclipses all earthly knowledge, even if it cannot be proven, for knowledge is everything that gives enlightenment, be it in an earthly or spiritual sense. Earthly knowledge is enlightenment about earthly questions, spiritual knowledge is enlightenment about questions which touch the spiritual realm, only that the former can be proven, whereas there is no proof for the latter as long as the human being stays on earth.

(16.10.1944) Nevertheless, it is a knowledge, a wealth of thought, which must be valued higher than earthly knowledge .... spiritual knowledge is gained just as much as earthly knowledge, because intellectual activity must first have set in before thought material conveyed from within or from outside becomes the human being's property, because thinking about it is an essential part of the latter. Before it has not become conviction, it cannot be called knowledge. But then it makes the human being happy because it enlightens, because it pulls away the veil from things that were previously hidden from the human being. And a person can then call himself knowledgeable when he has solved questions and the result fully satisfies him, but only when he has found the result with the assistance of the divine spirit .... invoking God for enlightenment and right thinking. For even the wrong thinker can be convinced of the truth of that which was imparted to him in error. But if he has not called upon the eternal deity for enlightenment of his thinking, then he also never has the guarantee of standing in right knowledge, i.e. in truth. For God alone is the giver of truth, because He Himself is the truth .... God does not depart from His conditions under which He dispenses the truth .... But the first condition is the recognition of Himself. Anyone who does not recognize God, anyone who denies Him, cannot think correctly because he is under the spell of the one who opposes the truth. And until he turns to the giver of truth in prayer so that He will guide him into the right knowledge, his thinking will remain wrong and produce results which completely contradict the truth. And it will not be right with him, for God's adversary likewise fights with sharp weapons since he strives to suppress the truth and to completely blind people's thinking. And he will succeed where faith in God is lacking, where a being Which is loving, wise and omnipotent is not acknowledged, for God's adversary has great power over these people ....

Amen

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Remitting or retaining sins .... Jesus’ disciples ....

B.D. 3297 from October 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

‘Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained ....’ These, too, are Words of Mine which were frequently interpreted differently than I had intended them. Only a person with an awakened spirit who hears My voice and conveys My explanation to you is able to correct this, so that you can liberate yourselves from error and know the truth .... My disciples were endowed with the power of working miracles in My name, of healing, of reviving the dead and thereby proving to people the strength of their undivided belief in Me. Their spiritual state allowed for all supernatural activity, for when My spirit poured into them it filled them with strength and light, with power and wisdom. Hence they were able to spread the truth because they knew it themselves, and by the mere voicing of words they were able to achieve things which exceeded all human ability. For they had been My disciples .... I had instructed them through the inner Word while I lived on earth, they lived in love and believed in Me, therefore they were also able to accept My spirit within themselves and work through it. These extraordinary acts were signs of their souls’ maturity which, in turn, were intended to prove to people what extraordinary abilities a person can achieve if he lives according to My will, that is, if he shapes himself after My image .... into love .... For love is strength, consequently, a person who loves is also permeated by strength and light, because he can be permeated by the spirit of God, His emanation of strength. And I exemplified to people a life of love .... I demonstrated to them how much strength the human being can attain and after My death I left living examples behind which were meant to proclaim My teaching of love again to demonstrate their strength and thus make it easier for people to believe in Me .... Even if I was no longer visible, I Myself was in the midst of My disciples in spirit .... I guided them, since everything that is permeated by My spirit is subject to My divine guidance .... because I Myself was subsequently able to take effect through those who were working in My name. Hence the disciples had the same power and the same right, because everything they accomplished was My will; they were enlightened by My spirit, which is the emanation of Myself. Consequently, they also had the power to forgive sins in My name, especially if illness was the result of sins and, in order to cure this illness, they had to remit the human being’s sins as well. However, if they recognised a person’s unworthiness, his unbelief and God-opposing will, they were just as entitled to leave him in his sinful state, for they were not governed by human understanding but by the divine spirit within them, My spirit, which knows everything and thus also a person’s unworthiness and the futility of a merciful action on him. Thus I gave My disciples the right to grant to people according to their realisation, because My spirit was active in them and guaranteed that My disciples thought correctly ....

But now people assume the same right even though My spirit is not effective in them as yet .... They associated the right to forgive or retain sins with the person itself and not with the divine spirit in this person and thus conferred this right to all followers of the disciples according to the word and not according to the spirit and therefore misunderstood the meaning of My Word, although they would also think correctly if they realised who is really My disciple .... Not those who appoint themselves but those who I have appointed for their teaching ministry on earth .... For I gave My disciples the instruction ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations ....’ But in order to teach, My spirit must be effective in them so that they will be able to distribute the pure truth to people and to spread My commandment of love in the world. Yet the truth can only be taken possession of through the working of the spirit. Therefore, it is imperative that My disciples must be enlightened by the spirit of God before they can count themselves as My disciples. In that case they will also be permeated by light and strength and able to accomplish extraordinary feats , the power of the spirit will enable them to heal the sick, thus to release people from sin and its consequences as soon as they believe in Me and My name .... To these spiritually enlightened people I gave the power of forgiving sins, since they also recognise in their spiritually mature state when a person deserves to have his sins forgiven, for then they will act on My behalf and it is I Who really forgives their sins. But if people feel themselves appointed to carry out the act of forgiveness of sin even though they have never been called by Me Myself, who are neither enlightened by My spirit nor hear My Word within themselves, their calling can rightfully be disputed, since this is already demonstrated by the fact that they are incapable of recognising their fellow human being in order to judge whether to remit his sins or to let him keep them. The assessment of this already presupposes the working of the spirit which, however, has to be denied to most of those who deem themselves called as servants of God as long as they do not possess the inner Word. Only through My Word are they called to work for Me, for only My Word gives them knowledge, that is, it conveys the pure truth to them, and this is absolutely necessary in order to be able to work for Me. Anyone who knows the truth can also pass it on and thereby helps his fellow human being to achieve liberation. Anyone who has My Word will also have the competence of judgment when a person’s will is inclined towards God. For the human being’s spoken word is often deceptive, the heart need not be involved in what is voiced by the mouth. But a true disciple has the gift of recognising his fellow human being and therefore also knows which person is serious about the forgiveness of his sin and does not allow himself to be misled by many words which lack inner conviction. Therefore, the remission of sin cannot be a general act since it can only take place if it was preceded by profound repentance and recognised as such by My disciples. But in that case the judgment of the latter will be valid before Me, for he only acts on My instructions and his deed is according to My will. With those Words I gave My disciples the understanding that their activity and thinking will be in complete concordance with Me if they work for Me in My name, that they cannot think and want anything else but what is My will if the divine spirit is working in them which, however, characterises them as My disciples in the first place. For I Myself appoint My servants on earth because I truly know who is qualified for this ministry and upon whom I can endow those gifts which are required by a teaching ministry on earth .... And to them I will also give the authority, for then they will only carry out My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fatherly love .... protection and help ....

B.D. 3298 from October 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

I am ready for you at any time .... only a loving or pleading thought is enough for Me to turn to you in order to listen to your needs or to make you equally happy with My love. And therefore you need never ever despair, for if I promise you My help you will not lack it, for My love will never cease. And if you work for Me you will be under My special protection, for you are the executors of My will on earth whom I need because there are only a few of them. And therefore, despite many trials you will cover your course of life safely and successfully because I Myself guide you by the hand and am around you in joy and sorrow, on cheerful and stormy days, and smooth your paths .... For the task I have given you is of such great importance that it has to be carried out for the sake of countless souls which are in danger. And if an earthly child has declared itself willing to fulfil this task it has also become, as it were, untouchable for the adversary who would like to destroy it in order to prevent My working on the erring souls. It certainly still has to struggle with earthly adversities and hardship but nevertheless it is in possession of strength which also masters them, for this strength is now constantly flowing to it from Me and the influx will not stop as long as it stays on earth. For I will no longer leave My children out once their will has freely and uninfluenced striven towards Me, once it has offered itself to work for Me it will also remain My child forever, and My fatherly love will protect it in every adversity and danger. Yet I cannot completely relieve it of earthly suffering for its own sake .... For it always has to stretch out its hands to Me longingly so that its heart will open to receive strength, because this is a process which absolutely requires the human being's will itself and which can never take place without this will as long as the human being is not yet perfect, thus the emanation of light and strength from Me takes place directly. An uninterrupted working of love would indeed make this direct emanation possible, yet you humans on earth are not yet so permeated by love that you are absorbed in it .... And therefore I still have to educate you to love, I have to let you participate in earthly suffering so that your heart will become capable of love, so that you will become purified. Yet My love will keep you all the more intimate, which you will never ever lose again if you want to serve Me and call for your father as My children. Your call will not go unheard, and every prayer of supplication will give you renewed strength to master earthly life and also to mature spiritually. For the task for which I need you requires maturity of soul and also a firm will towards the world. And you will possess both if you are used to work for Me. For the time of battle is still ahead of you. And I am preparing you for this time .... Therefore you may also believe that you will receive the strength from Me to then be able to carry out your ministry. And you may also constantly be certain of My love which truly guides you in a way that is beneficial for your soul and in accordance with My eternal plan ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Belief in the survival of the soul ....

B.D. 3299 from October 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The certainty that there is life after the death of the body makes it much easier for people to bear earthly suffering, for they then only regard earthly life as a preliminary stage to beatitude, to the actual life in the spiritual kingdom. For them earthly life does not mean the highest, and therefore they do not attach so much importance to adversities and suffering, just as they pay little attention to earthly goods and the pleasures of the world because they know that these are transient. The life of the soul after death is a happy thought for them, and even death itself loses its terror because they do not fear it but only regard it as an entrance into spiritual life. Therefore, a person who believes in the soul's continued life on earth has an advantage in every respect over those who deny the soul's continued life. The latter only seek to exploit earthly life in an earthly sense, and they only strive to live long and well on this earth, since they consider themselves to have passed away with the death of their body. But the human being can only gain the convinced belief in the soul's continued existence through his own reflection, it cannot be conveyed to him by fellow human beings, instead, the human being can only be stimulated to think, and he must come to the conclusion of his own accord that God's creations must be enduring, otherwise the creator would have delivered a defective work. Yet everything the human being looks at is again a work of creation in a more perfect form than already existing works of creation, thus a constant upward development can be observed in it, which understandably cannot stop with the human being but continues in the spiritual kingdom. Yet this cannot be proven to the human being if he does not accept his own feelings as proof, which more joyfully affirm the thought of a continuation of life after death than the thought of a complete end with the conclusion of earthly life ....

So the human being must believe what cannot be proven to him .... and yet he can still have the inner conviction of it which now also allows him to live consciously without doubt. For a person with faith in survival after death will arrange his earthly life completely differently than a person without faith in it, because he sees higher spiritual development as the purpose of earthly life, because he recognizes a state of spiritual maturity as the aim, which is the prerequisite for a blissful life after death. He now pays more attention to his soul, whereas the human being without this faith only seeks to maintain physical life and only pursues earthly aims. He is touched by everything that concerns the body, be it joy or suffering, because he does not find the compensation for it in his soul life. Emotionally and mentally he is indeed also in spheres which lie outside of the earthly, yet he is not aware of the fact that this is a search of the soul for which earthly aims alone are not enough. But the body's desire will always prevail and fetch the soul back from these spheres, and it will also succeed before the belief in its continued life has awakened and it then resists the body's desire. The adversity of the coming time will therefore be much easier to bear for people who firmly believe in survival, while others will be seized by despair since they consider their temporal end to have come and the knowledge of it triggers a paralysing horror in them. For faith will always be a source of comfort and strength, faith will never depress but uplift, faith will not be a weakness of will but a strength of will and likewise generate a strong will. Faith is not something human but something divine, although the unbeliever tries to smile disdainfully about it .... He lacks the strength which flows from strong faith. And therefore this faith should be struggled for first, for as soon as the human being believes himself to be immortal he also works for the salvation of his soul and is not satisfied with the successes of earthly life. However, the immortality of his soul can only be made credible to him when he is active in unselfish love .... otherwise selfish love will prevail and this will always reject the belief in a continuation of life after death, because the soul is aware of its inadequate state and therefore rather fears a continuation of life. And therefore love must be preached first again and again so that the human being's thinking will change and he will come close to the right faith, so that he will only learn to recognize earthly life as a transitional station and consciously strive for perfection in order to be able to enter the life in the beyond in a state which will ensure him eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Destruction of works of creation and its consequences ....

B.D. 3300 from October 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Everything visible to your eyes testifies to God’s love, it was created to help the fallen substance, to elevate it from its sunken state again, and therefore every work of creation should be seen as an emanation of divine love and be respected and valued accordingly. None of God’s creations may be wilfully destroyed, for then its function, its intended purpose, will be prevented. And neither may human work be destroyed which also has a function .... the function to be helpful. For every work of creation that originated from God’s will was given this function, otherwise it could not result in higher development of the substance. And human creations are also assessed in relation to their function .... As long as they have the task of being useful, as long as they somehow serve other people or even other creations, they contribute towards the development of the substance and fulfil their purpose.

To destroy such creations results in the interruption of the spirit’s progress of development and can never be justified before God .... as in fact all destruction of matter has to be motivated by love to be justifiable before God .... Consequently, if destruction takes place for the purpose of producing objects which are helpful to people, which serve a useful purpose, the destruction is justified for the love of other people. However, any other destruction is sacrilege .... sacrilege against other people and against God, Whose power created things which truly have another purpose than to fall victim to the human will of destruction .... And this sacrilege avenges itself badly ....

When the driving force of hatred and unkindness between people destroys matter then people also have to pay for it .... materially, because they lose things that had fulfilled a useful purpose, as well as spiritually, and the latter in a particularly painful way .... Because spirit has been freed against its will and before its time, and this spirit disturbs all substances in its environment but especially the human being by permanently appearing before his soul’s eyes, that is, by constantly occupying his thoughts with the lost objects. This is extremely harmful to the soul since it inhibits its development. It is held back from spiritual aspiration, its senses are constantly directed towards material things and therefore the creations can quietly torment a human being when they are unavailable to him, when they fall prey to the human will of destruction.

Every work of creation by God, or by a human being who just wants to work constructively, should be respected. The destructive principle denotes the actions of God’s opponent .... And at this moment in time he is raging in the world .... He induces people to God-opposing behaviour against His creations, he has awakened the destructive urge in people because they lack love and no longer understand the meaning and purpose of creation. And this shall result in serious consequences. God will counteract the human work of destruction, which is the influence of the evil power, with a far greater work of destruction but which is entirely warranted in God’ love ....

He shall liberate the spirit which is willing to walk the way of service on earth from endless long captivity .... He shall release the solid matter so that the human destructive will is stopped and human beings learn to see earthly creations for what they are: means for development as long as they can exercise their useful function. This divine destructive action will affect people even far more seriously; however, this is necessary so that they return to the right way of thinking, that they respect and appreciate every work of creation, that they understand its function and once again occupy themselves constructively. Because this and only this is divine order: that everything in existence shall progress and that every human work of creation shall also be a guarantee for the development of spirit as long as it fulfils its useful purpose, as long as the human will to be of help has produced it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exhortation to love ....

B.D. 3301 from October 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The human being's innermost being must be permeated with love if it wants to enter into a close connection with Me which will earn it extraordinary strength .... He must give extraordinarily in order to be able to receive extraordinarily. This willingness to give must be an inner urge, without any external influence, without compulsion and without the thought of repayment. Love for one's fellow human being must drive him to give of himself, be it in an earthly or spiritual way. For the fellow human being whose essence has not yet become pure love is always in need of reception. Only when he has love will he lack nothing, for then he will be exceedingly well provided for by Me. But as long as he is still unable to receive My emanation of love and strength directly he has to be helped by his fellow human beings, and this is true neighbourly love, that the human being hands out what earthly or spiritual possessions he has himself, that he gives what he receives from Me in abundance in order to help those who can only be given meagrely due to their own fault. And the more the human being gives out the more he will receive from Me, for he noticeably draws Me to himself through his active neighbourly love and thus enters into the most intimate bond with Me, which earns him strength and grace to a great extent, because My love permeates him as well as I am near him .... But likewise, what keeps away from Me will be powerless .... Anyone who does not kindle love in himself cannot expect love either, anyone who does not want to give himself cannot receive anything, and his life will be powerless and lightless .... And because he himself does not help his fellow human being he will not be helped in this spiritual adversity either. Admittedly, My love constantly approaches these people in the form of My word, so that again and again he is reminded of the necessity and blessing of the activity of love, that again and again My commandments are presented to him in order to motivate him to be lovingly active. Yet he has to accomplish the change to love himself, he has to ignite the spark within himself since no-one else can do this for him, yet the smallest act of neighbourly love already brings him blessings, it will make him happy and stimulate him into further activity of love. The only path to Me is love .... Only in love can a person draw close to Me, and only through love does he draw Me to himself, only through love does he follow Me, and through love alone can he become perfect .... But anyone who is permeated by love for Me can only progress in his development because My strength and love will never leave him. He has, as it were, wrapped an unbreakable bond around Me which can no longer loosen, for love becomes more and more dense; he absorbs My spiritual substance into himself, i.e. his spirit unites with Me, he joins Me in order to never ever detach himself from Me again .... And only love can achieve this .... Love is the most delicious thing that can touch a person's heart, because it is My emanation and everything that comes forth from Me has to make everything happy. But whether the human being feels happiness depends on his ability to love, on his will for good. For as soon as he carries this will within himself the spark of love is also ignited in him, as soon as he has the will to do good he is urged from within to do good, thus to give love, and he establishes contact with the original source of love .... he receives because he is willing to give away .... And thus he has united himself with Me through his good will. But every human being can muster the will to do good, yet he must muster it without coercion or influence .... He can only be guided, i.e. pointed to the divine through My word .... And then he can act according to his free will .... And therefore love cannot be allocated to a person but he has to kindle it in his heart himself, yet the strength goes to him according to his will. But without love no human being can enter into union with Me and therefore no one can become blessed without love either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Truth - calm and inner peace ....

B.D. 3302 from October 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

How erroneous people's thinking is can be seen from the fact that they lack the blissful tranquillity of the knower who constantly draws strength from the right knowledge which corresponds to truth. And as long as this tranquillity does not dominate a person's nature he does not yet live in truth, i.e. in the right knowledge of them, for he can certainly also have intellectually received the truth within himself but nevertheless need not live in knowledge if it has not yet become mental property, thus he has received it with heart and intellect. Pure truth must also bring people inner peace, for pure truth is a gift from God which He bestows upon the person who is worthy of such a gift. And divine gift will always make happy. Humanity, however, is in a state of disruption, restlessness, searching, trepidation and constant uncertainty; it is plagued by doubts and willingly rejects what it previously thought to be truth. But it would hold fast to the pure truth and defend it with tenacity and steadfastness. But it does not yet possess the pure truth .... otherwise the great suffering would not pass over the earth either .... For truth guarantees right thinking, and right thinking does not result in such chaos as the earth is in at present. Wherever truth is proclaimed there is a haven of peace, and anyone who accepts the truth can likewise enter this haven of peace. For even if the greatest restlessness prevails around him and the greatest discord rages, the bearers of truth will be little affected by it because the truth itself already protects them from falling into a restless state. Truth bearers are connected to God and the world can no longer take away the inner peace that radiates from God into their hearts. It can only outwardly oppress the body but no longer seriously endanger the soul, and this security of the soul also radiates to the whole person so that he stands safely and calmly in the midst of the storm of the world .... For truth has strength within itself once it touches the human being's heart and is accepted by the human being's will. This power must overcome all opposing forces because it is stronger than them. Only when the human being stands in truth, in recognition, does his aim stand tangibly before him, and then he strives unswervingly towards this aim and can no longer be shaken in his security and tranquillity. He is indeed still physically exposed to the hardships of life but even these no longer seem so immense that they make him timid as soon as he takes refuge in the eternal truth, in the word of God, the truth which has become form, for the strength of the divine word noticeably flows through him and restores his inner calm. But where there is error, there will also be a constant state of perplexity, the greater and more oppressive the deeper the human being stands in error .... But the world at present represents an immense amount of error and is alarmingly far from the truth. Truth, however, is light, error is darkness; and where there is darkness there will also be confusion, chaos, which is earthly and spiritually threatening, for divine order will no longer be observed because darkness no longer allows it to be recognized. Therefore, where there is error there will also be wrong actions, for erroneous teachings result in erroneous thinking and this in turn causes actions which contradict divine order. And the fact that the world's thinking is completely wrong is evident from its actions which represent a single work of destruction, which are directed against the divine will of creation, which cause utmost harm to fellow human beings and thus completely contradict the divine commandment of love .... Such deeds can only give birth to a wrong will, a wrong thinking, which again only emerged from the error which is spread in the world as truth. Where error is, there is also unkindness, for where love is taught and also practiced, there is truth, because God Himself, Who is the eternal truth, is also where love is. For truth and love are inseparable .... And therefore erroneous thinking can inevitably be concluded where unkindness spreads, and erroneous thinking is the result of erroneous teachings .... And this is why truth shall prevail against error, this is why God Himself sends bearers of truth amongst people to impart it to them so that they will find their way out of the chaotic state, so that they will become acquainted with the blissful inner peace which only truth can bring them, which has an effect both spiritually as well as earthly, for earthly conditions will also visibly improve once truth has taken hold amongst humanity and love has also found its way in with it. Then there will be light and peace and tranquillity, because with truth and love God Himself is close to people and light and strength constantly emanates from Him and the human soul finds peace in realization, in the right knowledge which makes it unspeakably happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Different fields .... different kind of revealing ....

B.D. 3303 from October 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

My fatherly love embraces all of you who see your father in Me. And I will also reveal Myself to you, yet always according to your maturity, your nature and your will; and each one of you will be allowed to feel Me differently, yet it is always I Who noticeably approaches you as soon as you seek Me with the love of your heart. But the latter is decisive .... I don't pay attention to words or external actions, I don't adhere to customs and traditions but I consider My children in My way as they tolerate it, i.e. as it is beneficial for their souls. And even if I consider one person differently than another, My working should not be called into question, you should not let yourselves be afflicted by doubts but always remember that I alone know the hearts but that I have also given each one different tasks for earthly life and that this difference of tasks also comes to light in the work for the kingdom of God. And every labourer for My vineyard will be employed where he can work most successfully, and his work will be according to his field of work. And there are many soils, many fields, which lie outside the area which is easily accessible to people .... outside the congregations that call themselves My church and are considered My church before the world. And these fields have to be cultivated differently again and therefore also require servants who understand the nature of the soil and diligently go to work to make it fertile. And I will give them other tools but they will be familiar with their use .... But I also have to make Myself known to them as lord, and I do it in such a way that they will recognize Me very well, whereas they would let Me go unrecognized if I wanted to visit them in the garment in which I am recognizable to the ecclesiastical congregations. I do not look at the outward appearance of My children but only into their heart, and to this heart I reveal Myself .... And every heart will recognize Me which is active in loving activity. But love can be practiced everywhere, consequently I can also reveal Myself everywhere and don't need a special circle of people and therefore no special kind either. Every heart can feel Me, and only the deeper it loves the more noticeably. And according to your task I consider you .... Anyone who sets himself a task on his own before I have called him also sets limits for himself, for he will never outgrow his tasks, he will never try to achieve greater things and therefore cannot expect any extraordinary expressions of grace on My part either. However, anyone who leaves everything to Me, including the nature of his activity for My kingdom, will also be guided by Me such that My guidance will visibly become apparent to him, and I will reveal Myself to him as required by the task he has been given .... I teach the servant to cultivate the soil, to prepare the field for the seed, for the sowing, which I Myself will then let those servants plant in the field, so that it will grow and flourish and bear good fruit .... For My fields are many and hard to work, and I bless every hand that willingly gives itself to this work ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mission of God's servants according to ability .... love life ....

B.D. 3304 from October 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The way you should be active will be made known to you as soon as your mission begins, and then don't hesitate to follow the inner voice, the voice of the heart, which will urge you to speak and act in this or that way. For you are guided by divine will, and you need only devote yourselves to it with complete faith, then your will will also strive towards the same, you will act according to your will and yet carry out God's will. Then you will only be God's instruments and able to administer your office on earth. For God places you in the place where you can work most successfully. And everyone who wants to be of service to Him will be used according to his ability, and he shall now work as his heart dictates. But everything should serve the spreading of the divine word .... The more people take notice of the pure word of God, which guides His love Itself to earth, the sooner they will penetrate the truth and the safer they can be rescued from their spiritual adversity. Without the word of God, however, they cannot penetrate the truth and the adversity on earth cannot come to an end. Spreading the word of God is your most important task which, however, you can carry out in all situations of life, at all times and in all places, for if you are unable to do so with words you can teach it by example, i.e. you can inspire your fellow human beings to imitate you through an unselfish life of love and thus demonstrate the teaching of love to them in deed and likewise achieve success; for as soon as the human being practices love his thinking will also become bright and come close to the truth. The word of God in its purity only teaches love, and it points out the consequences of a life of love as well as a life without any love .... All further knowledge is then the consequence of this required life of love. And therefore your task for the time being is to live in love yourselves in order to also prove to your fellow human beings the blessing of a life of love .... the knowledge of pure truth .... You will only be able to fulfil your mission if you make the divine commandments your own guideline for your way of life. For His servants must also live out His word, otherwise they are unfit to spread it, otherwise they merely pass it on as spoken word without any strength. For the power of the spirit does not animate this word, and thus it cannot bring it to life either. And thus the success of God's servants will always depend on the teacher's ability and willingness to love, and thus the task will also be assigned to him according to his willingness to love as soon as his mission begins. And therefore work on yourselves, make yourselves capable of being eager servants of the lord, live in love so that you will also be able to teach such, so that you yourselves will receive knowledge as a result of love which you can now impart to your fellow human beings, and strive for strong faith so that you can prove the strength of faith to your fellow human beings. Be active, strive towards the spiritual kingdom, so that this kingdom will also appear worth striving for to your fellow human beings, so that they will leave the world and turn to the spiritual kingdom, so that you will be successful in your work for the lord. And leave it up to Him what He wants to use you for, leave it up to Him what work He assigns to you, for He truly knows best where He can place you so that you will be successfully active. For every willing servant will be joyfully accepted, because they are all needed for the work of the soul, which will only begin on a large scale after God has obviously made Himself known, after He has spoken to people through nature .... Only then will the important work for His kingdom begin, and then you will have to be eager, for the time you still have until the end is short .... And therefore God calls His servants everywhere, and He prepares them .... He loosens tongues, He makes hearts communicative, He enlightens the thinking of those who are devoted to Him, and He guides people to each other who need strength and reinforcement so that they can draw it from His word, which is directly conveyed from Him to earth, which He has blessed with His strength and which therefore will be a source of strength, refreshment and revitalization in the coming adversity. And anyone who hears this word and faithfully receives it into his heart will be strong, remain faithful to God and also victoriously overcome the last battle, the battle against faith ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prayer of the awakened .... fulfilment ....

B.D. 3305 from October 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Hear the divine spirit: In every way God is intent on helping people to the salvation of their souls, and everything that happens, that He Himself does or allows, is a means to this end. And therefore everything from God's hand must be gratefully accepted, even if the body feels it as suffering, because it is helpful for the soul. And this thought should also determine your prayer, you should only pray for the well-being of your soul and leave the well-being of your body to God's will, because His love and wisdom only remember your soul and the soul's eternal life is the aim and purpose of everything that comes upon you. Therefore you should pray that God will protect your soul from every danger and hand your body over to Him completely; you should leave it up to Him as He thinks of it and always trust in His love and wisdom, which must be your guarantee that everything God sends upon you is good. This applies to the awakened person who knows the meaning and purpose of suffering and who also recognizes humanity's spiritual hardship and knows about its consequences for the souls. His pleas and supplications should always be for spiritual well-being, it should be a constant prayer for light in the darkness of time, it should be a struggle for spiritual goods, for firm faith, for realization of truth and for spiritual knowledge, for this alone remedies the spiritual hardship and also the earthly hardship at the same time, because the latter is a consequence of the former. Anyone who is in knowledge should only pray for salvation from spiritual adversity .... nevertheless, he can also place all earthly adversities on the heavenly father's heart by completely handing himself over to His guidance, by believing that he, as His child, is lovingly sheltered by Him .... His faith in God's love must be strong, then all earthly worries will disappear, for if a child knows itself to be loved by the father it will no longer fear anything because God's love will turn away from it if it is beneficial for its soul. The human being must be certain of God's love .... And he will be so if he himself stands in love. Depending on the degree of his love for God and his neighbour and its activity God's love fills him and also becomes noticeable to him .... And the loving person will be completely carefree even in earthly adversity .... For he firmly trusts and therefore knows no worry. And this is the strength of divine love which flows through him as soon as he is lovingly active himself. He will no longer believe that he can master anything by his own strength but will completely hand himself over to the father in heaven and thus also place all earthly worries at His feet because he knows that only God can take them away from him, that only God directs his destiny as it is good for him. And thus he trusts that God, in His love, will not burden him with more than is necessary for his soul. And his prayer will be a surrender to divine will, he will not demand but surrender to God's will and determination .... Nevertheless, the soul can also take refuge in God in great physical adversity and call upon Him for strength and fortitude, for this adversity often comes upon a person in order to motivate him to intimate contact with God if he is in danger of slackening in prayer ....

(24.10.1944) And then God reveals Himself by fulfilling the requests, for the power of prayer is to be proven to people so that the divine promise will be fulfilled: "Ask and it shall be given to you ...." For God takes care of all His children who see their father in Him and express this to Him through faithful prayer. But God knows when His children are in need, He knows their earthly and spiritual shortcomings and considers them accordingly. The supplicant is given, and the sincerity of the prayer also guarantees fulfilment. But the strength of prayer is increased when the fulfilment of every request is entrusted to God's will, when the human being surrenderingly submits to His will, then he completely entrusts himself to God's guidance and then everything will be for the salvation of his soul. God’s word says: Ask and it will be given to you .... thus the human being may ask for everything, he may come to the father with earthly and spiritual requests .... he will always be considered according to his faith. But if he is willing to forego the fulfilment of a request, if this corresponds to divine love and wisdom, then he completely submits himself to God's will. And this will truly only aims at what is best for the human being. For the most part he will also be fulfilled because he has already progressed so far in realization that he no longer has to fear straying into the world, and then God will consider him spiritually and earthly, He will avert every adversity from him, He will make every test easy for him and lovingly guide him on his earthly path, and he need not fear that God will not hear his silent prayer .... For God's will will then also be his will as soon as he has submitted himself to Him, and God's will will also guide his thinking right .... he will then only pray for that which is conducive to his spiritual development and never think of his body again, and then God will give him what he needs for soul and body .... For His promise is fulfilled to the letter ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Humans despite bad will God's henchmen ....

B.D. 3306 from October 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Worldly guidance will by no means be able to stop an event which has been determined by divine will since eternity but it will unconsciously contribute to it, i.e. human will is the cause of what God's will brings to pass, even though human will expected and intended a completely different effect. People plan something contrary to God's will and God allows it to happen, but to a certain extent directs the effect to the good insofar as the human soul can benefit from it if it does not manifestly oppose God. Earthly, however, the human being must also bear the consequences of God-opposing actions and thoughts so that he will recognize the effects of a wrong will and endeavour to change this wrong will. But what God has ultimately decided can no longer be stopped by the will of men. And even worldly power has to recognize its powerlessness in the face of an event which unfolds without human intervention and testifies to a power which governs everything. Therefore, worldly power can make unhindered decrees but it cannot avert or stop anything by doing so if God's plan is different .... And God's plan strives for an upheaval which is spiritually significant but which will also make itself felt earthly. For only by shaking people's thinking through earthly tribulation and adversity can a spiritual change be achieved. And therefore God takes people's wrong thinking as the occasion for an event which will erupt in nature .... Destructions and annihilations caused by human will trigger forces in nature that humanity does not expect .... Human will plans a work of destruction on an appalling scale, and divine will lets it take effect on an inconceivable scale by commanding the spirits of nature to rebel against the human will of destruction, which is now active with such force that the earth shakes and countless people lose their lives. And human will is unable to put a stop to it, human intervention is unsuccessful and the earthly powerful recognizes his powerlessness towards the creator of heaven and earth. Yet he does not acknowledge Him, he rebels against the power which is stronger than him and thereby places himself completely under satan’s control, to whom he was already in bondage before. And satan now uses him to openly fight against God .... And this is the prelude to the coming battle of faith, which is inevitable, in which God will confront His adversary .... in which those who are faithful to God will fight against the children of satan and, under the leadership of Jesus Christ, will also gain the victory .... It is the last battle that the adversary will wage on this earth, for it will end with his capture. As soon as he has abused his power in such a way that he tries to force people into a way of thinking which is completely contrary to God, his power is played out, for the action against God Himself cannot result in anything other than his renewed bondage, otherwise creation would no longer be able to fulfil its purpose, because then the spiritual being which has reached the last stage of development would be deprived of every possibility to make the final decision, to finally release itself from the form. For this last decision is a matter of free will, which can turn upwards or also downwards, but for this it must also necessarily have the knowledge of both poles towards which it can strive .... But this knowledge is withheld from him by satan’s activity, so that all knowledge about God, about Jesus Christ, His teaching of love and His act of salvation is undermined and satan makes use of people who carry his God-opposing will within themselves. For this is a danger for everything spiritual which inevitably has to be turned away by taking all power away from God's adversary and by a time of spiritual peace and brightest light replacing the time of battle between light and darkness. For God's power is greater and His will rules heaven and earth .... And even if people on earth believe themselves powerful because they do not want to acknowledge a higher power .... they will only ever be the henchmen of the highest power with their measures and decrees, working in the opposite will but nevertheless being used for the work which God Himself has intended since eternity. For all powers must serve Him, good and bad; voluntarily and involuntarily these services are rendered because they are all subject to His will. And thus world events will also take their course in accordance with divine will, even though human will completely opposes God and carries out works which are the work of satan. And God does not prevent them from doing so, yet they unintentionally participate in the execution of the plan which has been determined since eternity. They themselves hasten the judgment which will befall them, which means an end for this earth and all people living on it as well as every creature, except for the small flock of God-fearing fighters whom the lord Himself will fetch home before the end has come ....

Amen

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Size of guilt prevents entrance into the afterlife .... banishment ....

B.D. 3307 from October 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The extent of humanity's guilt increases daily, and all people are to be called guilty who carry out or approve of actions which deny them any love for their neighbour. Where hatred and unkindness break through people sin, for they offend against divine order, they offend against the commandments of love for God and their neighbour. And thus they increase their guilt with every action that is bad; and even he is guilty who does not detest such an action but consents to it. But people don't consider the consequences, nevertheless they have to take them upon themselves on earth or in the beyond, and since the guilt increases immeasurably it can neither be redeemed on earth nor in the beyond, for earthly time is too short and in the beyond an ascent development can only proceed from a certain degree onwards, and people no longer reach this degree who make themselves guilty to the extent that they commit new unkindnesses daily and hourly. And therefore they have to remain on this earth, they cannot enter the spiritual kingdom after their death but their death will only mean a change of their external form, their souls will receive other coverings and continue to move on earth only in a completely unfree state. For through their excessive guilt they have forfeited all freedom, and they fall into an agonizing captivity from which they cannot free themselves. Yet the magnitude of their guilt requires atonement, and since they would have to languish and suffer for eternities in the spiritual kingdom if they wanted to be released from their great guilt, it is God's act of mercy that He creates another possibility to atone for this guilt and at the same time strive towards freedom again, even if the soul is granted renewed freedom of will after an infinitely long time. But in a state of compulsion it is nevertheless induced to activity which at the same time signifies higher development, whereas in the beyond, in the spiritual kingdom, the beingness lacks all strength and the will to activity is also completely paralyzed through its own fault. Thus even the seemingly most cruel work of the divine creator is a work of love on the fallen spiritual, which has increased its former guilt many times over through God-opposing actions, which it carries out on earth in free will. And as long as people don't repent and change to love they heap guilt upon guilt upon themselves, and the consequences are frightening, for they inevitably draw God's punitive judgment upon themselves and deprive themselves of all freedom .... For they must atone according to divine justice, they must take all the consequences upon themselves .... they have to walk the path once again through the whole of creation until they are given free will once again in order to be able to use it for the final release from the form ....

Amen

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Inner prompting is God's instruction .... Subordination of will ....

B.D. 3308 from October 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

God informs you of his instructions through your heart .... As soon as you feel prompted to do something, as soon as you are driven to it from within, you will always be instructed by the voice of God, providing you are making an effort to live according to God's will, that you thus strive towards Him and entrust yourselves to His guidance. Then you will be directed by His will such that you have the same will within yourselves because you have consciously submitted yourselves to His will; only then may you comply with the prompting of your heart and your actions will be right and in accordance with God's will. Yet you must seriously scrutinise yourselves as to which power you give the right to guide you .... Heartfelt prayer protects you from the opposing power; however, whatever you do without having requested God's blessing, whatever you do purely to improve your body's well-being, whatever those of you do who are completely apart from God are not His instructions but His adversary's, and they will damage the soul. The person striving towards God need never be afraid of thinking and behaving wrongly, because his attitude towards God also allows him to be accessed by spiritual forces and entitles them to protectively walk by the person's side, thereby also averting the influences of evil forces. Only the desire for God guarantees divine protection for a person, and anyone being divinely guarded cannot go astray, he can only do what benefits his soul. He is guided by God Himself and every path taken by him is important and leads to the goal.

Although the person acts according to his own discretion, in as much as his will impels him to undertake this or that action, it is nevertheless God's will which manifests itself through his will as long as the person gives in to the inner prompting. If, however, he pays no attention to this urging then he resists it, he becomes undecided since his will has not yet entirely submitted itself to God's will. And this is what he has to beware of, for it is always the result of praying less often .... The more intimately he is in contact with God the more clearly he will see his delineated path and the more willingly he will follow the instructions revealed to him by God through his heart. Only the distance from God deprives him of the keen sense for the divine will, for in that case he has to rely on himself and will be unsure as to what he should or should not do. And God's adversary makes use of such situations by tuning into a person's thoughts, by trying to impel him to base his every action on his own advantage. And then the person will have to fight, he will have to struggle in order to restore his connection with God again which will gain him clarity of thought so that he will be able to resist the temptations. Anyone looking for God will not go wrong; however, the path of anyone excluding Him will lead him astray. This is why nothing should be undertaken without a prayer for God's blessing, then people's thinking will be guided correctly and every activity shall incorporate God's will ....

Amen

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Spiritual and earthly bonds .... maturity ....

B.D. 3309 from October 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In the spiritual kingdom souls on the same spiritual level unite in order to work together using the strength flowing to them from God. This connection is extremely blissful because complete harmony is the basis and all souls, who are recipients of light and strength, also have deepest love inherent in them, which they transfer to each other. It is a constant giving and handing out that is blissful, it is an uninterrupted working of love on the souls that are in need of help and need light and strength. The union of like-minded and equally mature beings provides them with increased strength by means of which they are able to accomplish greater tasks than they could on their own. And their successes are correspondingly great. To a certain extent the light beings' field of work is expanded, the circle of those who are their work to educate becomes ever larger, and this stimulates them to ever more eager activity, which again results in an increased supply of strength. They are extremely happy beings who form a community in spiritual activity, for love for one another wraps a tight bond around them. But they can only enter into this union in the spiritual sphere which corresponds to their degree of maturity. They are spiritually related souls who often had no contact whatsoever on earth but who surpass all earthly bonds in bliss precisely because of the complete harmony of their will, knowledge and love. This harmony is seldom found on earth, and earthly bonds are mostly physical and lack spiritual harmony. And then one can be a hindrance to the other in his spiritual development, although each can mature again from the resistances and difficulties which arise from the difference of the joined souls. Nevertheless, the same degree of spiritual maturity is rarely recorded in earthly bonds, for this would already be an excessive happiness on earth, thus a state which would no longer be compatible with earthly life, because then people would no longer be able to fulfil their earthly task but could only be spiritually active according to their maturity. Such spiritual activity, however, also requires spiritual strength which would appear supernatural to ignorant and immature fellow human beings and affect their faith and free will, i.e. these spiritually connected people would have extraordinary strength at their disposal which, however, would be incomprehensible to their fellow human beings and make them unfree in their faith. This is why spiritually equally mature people can only unite in the spiritual kingdom, and they must refrain from uniting on earth. Nevertheless, they can work in love next to and for each other and carry out their spiritual activity for their own happiness, for then they will be blessed as labourers in the vineyard of the lord for countless souls whom they help into the light, and they will still mature together until their departure from earth in order to then be able to enter into the union in the spiritual kingdom and then work together as beings of light which are permeated by strength and light and give their spiritual wealth to the souls they want to make happy ....

Amen

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Love .... wrong .... divine .... from human to human ....

B.D. 3310 from October 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

No request goes unheard at the ear of the heavenly father, which rises up to Him from the deepest heart. And every thought of God gives strength and grace .... For His love is constantly with those who struggle for inner peace, who want to belong to Him and have to struggle and fight against the challenges of the world. But strength will be sent to them if it is needed .... God has placed love in the human being's heart, He has made him capable of this feeling, which is no longer earthly but divine if it takes the right direction. Love is the desire for unity, and this desire can be for the still immature spiritual, for matter or other pleasures of the world which pull down, which do not ennoble but degrade the soul, and then it is a wrong love which is to be fought for the soul's sake. This love is not divine, for a divine love strives for the luminous height, it strives for union with mature spiritual beings, it only seeks to make happy but never earthly possessions. Right love can also apply to all things, but only in the redemptive sense that it wants to help where help is needed. Right love can also awaken from person to person, if the giving, wanting to please principle always prevails, even if the person feels his own happiness in it, because right love must please because it is divine. The desire for union must also characterize right love, only this union can take place physically or also spiritually. A merely physical union can mean a danger for right love if the person is not strong enough and the giving love changes into a demanding one. Spiritual love, on the other hand, is and remains divine and will never be able to pull a person down, for this love is a merging of souls, a union for the increase of spiritual strength .... This love is God-willed, for it promotes the soul, because both desire is directed upwards and they now also travel the path together. Yet physical love must always be sacrificed to this spiritual love, i.e. the desire of the body must be overcome, the human being must only want to give but never want to possess; he must be willing to sacrifice if he can help the other person with it, he must fight a battle with himself so that his love will remain a true, divine love, so that it will remain a purely spiritual one which lifts up to the ascent. Unselfish neighbourly love always demonstrates the right love, and as long as two people's love for each other consists of unselfish service it is divine and blessed by God .... For He created people for each other, He brought them together so that they should ascend together, and He will bless every covenant which has pure, redeeming, divine love as its basis .... But they must protect this love as the most sacred good, so that it remains pure and divine until the end of life ....

Amen

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Support in coming time .... workers of the lord ....

B.D. 3311 from October 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

I will bring My own together so that they will serve Me in spiritual unity and be firm supports for their fellow human beings in the coming time. Great things are at stake, it is about the salvation of the souls languishing in dark spiritual night whose will is not completely turned away from Me. And this salvation requires overriding powers on earth which speak in My name, which are endowed with strength and wisdom, which are so connected to Me that I Myself can work through them. And I am forming such forces in the time which precedes the last battle on earth. It is people who are enabled by their desire for Me to receive the truth, for without the imparting of truth there is no salvation for the souls. Only the imparting of truth can guide them onto the right path, only through truth will they learn to recognize and love Me, and the latter is absolutely necessary in order to bring about a change in their lives. And for this the truth has to be offered to them, and for this I require diligent labourers on earth who receive the truth from Me in the form of My word and pass it on. I Myself instruct My workers as to how they should work, and I supply them with strength where they lack it, again in the way that is most effective for them. For I know everyone's ability and accordingly place him in the place, in the field of work, where he can serve Me most successfully. It is My will that those who are to work for Me should unite in love, it is My will that every opportunity is used to increase the strength which is beneficial to spiritual work. And it is My will that every bond strives towards the spiritual aim, otherwise it cannot be blessed by Me. I want to be active in My house, i.e., people should fully belong to Me through whom I work, whom My spirit radiates through. And this presupposes that they completely disregard the world, that they in no way strive to gain earthly advantages, that they solely strive towards Me and want to travel the path to Me and with Me together, which will earn them abundant work for My kingdom. For this alone is important in the coming time, that open doors are provided through which I can enter people's hearts. And everyone should work according to his strength, everyone should try to bind Me to himself through constant activity in love, he should establish the spiritual bond with Me, which is indissoluble, and he should only ever listen to the expression of My will in order to fulfil it joyfully .... And therefore I bring people together who are willing to work for Me, so that they mature together, so that they complement each other and inspire love, so that their strength joins together and they can be beneficially active for Me and My kingdom. The gift of grace which I continue to offer them, My word, shall first make them suitable for their activity, and only when they are completely permeated by My word can the work begin, for the spreading of truth requires that they first stand in truth themselves, that they become knowledgeable in order to be able to spread correct knowledge. And My blessing accompanies all My children, My servants on earth, who want to stand up for Me and My word. But My blessing means increased strength and certain success .... Furthermore, My blessing signifies pleasure in all efforts which are meant for the spreading of My word, and whatever pleases Me will not be in vain either, because My love rests on it and this always signifies strength. And if I bless My servants on earth they will be able to perform their duties without worry, their thoughts and actions will be right, they will travel their earthly path in accordance with My will, for I Myself also direct the earthly course of life in a way which is good and successful for the spiritual development of the individual as well as of the people for whom My servants shall be active on earth .... For whoever has given himself to Me, his destiny is sealed .... I use him as a labourer in My vineyard and never release him, yet he will also no longer want to leave Me and offer his services to Me until the end of his life ....

Amen

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Faithful congregation .... faith power ....

B.D. 3312 from October 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

A believing congregation can be a great blessing in the midst of unbelievers, for if it lives out the word of God and God's promises are fulfilled in it, the believers will be a living example of Christ's teaching of love and at the same time proof of the truth of His word, which will also enable the unbelievers to come to faith if they are of good will. And this believing congregation is Christ's church through which His word is spread, for anyone who lives by faith, who fulfils the divine commandments, thus who takes Christ's teaching of love as the guiding principle of his life, will also try to persuade his fellow human being to do the same; he will hold the word of God up to him, he will preach love to him, he will try to strengthen his faith and try to incorporate him into Christ's church, the community of believers, in order to win his soul for the kingdom of God. He will thus work for the kingdom of God .... And thus a believing congregation can have a very beneficial effect and also prepare fellow human beings for the coming battle of faith. It can provide them with the evidence of the strength that lies in faith and the rich knowledge that a life of love brings to people, and thereby they will be stimulated to cultivate faith and love, and thereby strengthened and thus able to offer resistance if the battle of faith also approaches them. One person will have to lift himself up from the other, and the believer will also muster the strength to be a support for the weak believers. And a believing congregation will stand like a bulwark against the onslaught of the world, of faithless people. For the word of God imparts great strength to the believers. The divine will is proclaimed to people through the word of God, Christ's teaching of love is conveyed to them, and anyone who fulfils God's will by living in love will also be permeated by God's strength, and God's strength is insurmountable, thus the believer can face the coming time without worry and also impart strength to those who join, who join the congregation in the will to do what is right before God. The believer will not lose his faith, for whatever spiritual knowledge he possesses which corresponds to the truth he will never ever give away, and this spiritual knowledge has also earned him a profound faith which is now alive, i.e. which carries out works of love through which the human being's spiritual knowledge will increase ever more. Such faith will be unshakeable and therefore also remain in the final battle. Many weak believers will be strengthened by it and unbelievers will change and come to faith, because the strength of faith will be revealed if profound believers request it in order to provide their fellow human beings with the evidence that the word of God is truth and deserves fullest faith ....

Amen

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Supplication to the beings of light in spiritual need ....

B.D. 3313 from October 31th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Souls in spiritual distress are surrounded by good and bad forces and therefore need not despair in their soul's distress, but neither should they be indifferent lest the bad forces gain control over them. The struggle of the spiritual forces for the soul does not diminish, and as soon as the human being himself favours the bad forces due to weakness of will, but the soul strives towards the light according to its nature, it now gets into hardship which, however, is a warning and admonition of the good forces at the same time. For this adversity should cause it to turn to the good forces for help, which it would never do if the soul were spared the adversity. For the beings of light can only assist the soul when they are called upon .... This divine law cannot be overturned. The light beings' love is so great that they are always willing to help and would help any soul in need. But the strength of the beings of light is also so strong that it can overpower every dark power, thus render it harmless, thus there could never be a distressed earthly child if God had not given this law that the help of the beings of light depends on the human being's appeal. But the human being only sends such a plea upwards if he feels the soul's distress perceptibly. And since the transmission of strength from the spiritual kingdom to the human being is necessary for his soul to mature, the soul has to get into this distress as soon as it is in danger of falling prey to evil forces due to its weakness of will. Hence the battle between light and darkness, which is waged for his soul, must also have a noticeable effect on the human being in order to make him take action, i.e. to stimulate him to appeal for strength, otherwise the soul would never be able to progress in its development. Distress of the soul is therefore inevitable as long as the human being does not receive God's strength through extraordinary loving activity. A person who is constantly active in love will only rarely experience spiritual hardship because the beings of light can constantly influence him and are no longer bound by divine law, for the loving person has broken down every barrier so that the strength from God can constantly be conveyed to him. And that is why a person in spiritual adversity should make an effort to give love, thereby he nullifies the influence of the evil beings, and in combination with prayer for strength and help he will very soon resolve the soul's adversity, for the forces of light have now become victors again and can now give abundantly to the soul. Loving activity and prayer remedy every weakness .... the human being becomes the conqueror of the forces which want to harm him, he strives of his own free will towards the light and flees from darkness .... his will has been strengthened by temptation as soon as he has resisted it. And every victory is a step upwards; the sincerely striving human being will emerge victorious from every temptation, yet he, too, will be harassed by dark forces as soon as he allows moments of weakness of will to arise in him. Yet he can always be certain of the support of the beings of light who hear his plea for strength and are always ready to help him ....

Amen

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Spiritual hunger .... short time of freedom of faith ....

B.D. 3314 from November 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Spiritual hunger will set in when people no longer consider earthly life worth living, and then the time will have come when God's servants will be able to work successfully. And then every opportunity must be used to bring people closer to the kingdom of God, to proclaim God’s word to them and to inform them of His will. Their faith in God has to be awakened or strengthened, and they have to be urged to pray, to make contact with God Who can only then distribute His strength which they need for their development. And God's servants will be willingly listened to at first, for the world appears transient to people and their desire is temporary for things which are permanent. And people will be of lively spirit and eagerly receive the word of God. But this willingness will only last a short time and therefore it is to be evaluated in every way. And everywhere the love of God is to be mentioned; everywhere men are to be pointed to their earth tasks; they are to be stimulated to love work, so that they soon feel the blessing and the power of it. They are to be made aware of the fact that they have to prove themselves in the coming faith struggle if they want to acquire eternal life. And thus they are to work diligently for the kingdom of God, for very soon this free state of faith will be put to an end by measures and decrees which will prevent or completely make impossible all spiritual courtship, all spiritual activity. And from this time on humanity will be in greatest danger, i.e. it can also avert this danger from itself if it complies with the desire of the worldly authorities. Then it has nothing to fear from them, but it sells its soul, and this is imperishable .... But the soul of man senses it and fears and dreads the coming time. And therefore it is also particularly open-minded because it unconsciously feels that the word of God secures its existence in happiness and that it is the only source of strength from which it can strengthen itself in times of adversity. And every endeavour which is not meant for the attainment of His sanctified word has thereby become invalid. For the divine word alone gives people the necessary strength to withstand all measures which are directed against faith and thus against God ....

Man's desire for the food of heaven will be great, but only in those who recognize God in the divine intervention, in the unleashing of the forces of nature, who see this process as a visible sign from God that He condemns man's behaviour and wants to lead them onto a different path. They will raise their hearts to God and desire His word because it gives them comfort and strength, enlightenment and incentive, because only now will they recognize the connection between everything that is happening in the world and the spiritual state of people. And these shall be given the bread of heaven, even though it is a somewhat heavy fare at first for those who are still weak in faith. Nevertheless it helps them according to their will upwards. And so that this will is trained, that it keeps good and evil apart and decides in favour of what is right, the lord's labourers are to be constantly active, and they are not to let themselves be discouraged when they encounter resistance, and they are to walk on undeterred, offering the bread of heaven to their neighbour and handing out food and drink wherever the needy wait for nourishment. For the time of this free activity is short .... Satan works with great haste and spares no means to oust God .... Therefore the battle against this free activity begins shortly afterwards. And the measures are of drastic importance, after all, they are intended to stop all spiritual striving and to change people's thinking from the bottom up .... And now he who eagerly received the word of God will prove himself, for he will no longer want to miss the heavenly food, he will no longer be able to exist without God's comforts and strength; he will stand firm because he will desire ever more and also receive what will give him strength to resist everything hostile to his soul. The more diligently the labourers of the lord are active in the time of need, the more successful their work for the kingdom of God will be. For once they have been able to offer the word of God with conviction, it will also take root and can no longer be eradicated from the hearts of those who are willing to receive it. And once the seed has fallen on fertile soil it will also blossom, grow and flourish and bear good fruit .... And therefore God needs numerous labourers, He needs people on earth who voluntarily place themselves into His service, who allow themselves to be instructed by Him and are now constantly active in order to make use of every time and opportunity where they can successfully work for people's salvation of soul, where they give people what they urgently need through the supply of the divine word .... light and strength .... realisation and firm will to resist when the time of decision has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Paying off the debt of sins through children and children's children ....

B.D. 3315 from November 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The consequence of sin is also its punishment. This is to be understood in such a way that every sin has its consequences, which in turn have a corrupting effect on the sinner, which is why we can speak of a just punishment. However, this punishment is not inflicted on the human being by God, but he himself has incurred it because he has given the direct cause for it. However, the consequences of sin can also take a long time, but they inevitably come, only then they do not affect man himself, but his children and children's children, so that they have to bear a punishment that was inflicted generations before. This is an apparent injustice on God's part, but it always concerns souls who need particularly difficult living conditions to mature and who have chosen particularly difficult living conditions for their path in life. They bear, as it were, undeserved suffering and are also in spiritual contact with the souls of those who are to blame for this suffering. Thus they are influenced by those souls to pay off a debt which has followed them into the kingdom of the beyond and which would require an excessive amount of time to pay off in the hereafter. And God accepts atonement from children and children's children .... If the human being can pay off his guilt on earth himself, there are countless ways to do so, i.e. the human being has to deal with the consequences of sin; he will then, in a manner of speaking, have to suffer the same fate he has caused others .... he will have to bear the suffering he has caused others; the effects of sin will always affect him again and he will not be able to defend himself against it. But then he spares his descendants all these sufferings which he himself has caused. But if he enters the kingdom of the beyond with this guilt he will not find peace there until he has again persuaded the people close to him on earth through mental influence to atone for his former sin on earth, which then earns them an earthly fate which clearly reveals the sins of the fathers. Atonement for the sin committed is accepted from children and children's children in order to awaken a sense of responsibility in people, as well as to make them underestimate the magnitude of a guilt .... Sinners suffer immense agony in the beyond if they see people on earth atoning for their guilt, and therefore the guilt is atoned for twice and accordingly paid off more quickly, just as, conversely, a person who knows about his fathers' sins does not bear the punishment so heavily because it seems just to him and his soul thereby reaches maturity more quickly on earth. However, it is extremely easy for a sinner to be released from his guilt if he lays it at His feet in profound faith in Jesus Christ, if he sincerely asks Him for forgiveness after he has sincerely repented of his sins and endeavours to amend them .... Then the consequences of his sins will also be absent, he will not need to fear that his guilt will have to be paid off by his descendants .... He will be freed from his guilt for the sake of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Different spheres in the spiritual kingdom ....

B.D. 3316 from November 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Immediately after physical death the soul leaves the body and moves into the spiritual kingdom which, depending on its maturity, can be close to or far away from earth. This should not be understood in a three-dimensional sense, the distance is the result of the difference between the spheres which indeed belong to the spiritual kingdom because they are away from and outside of the earthly-material world and the immature soul has to travel a long path in time before it arrives in the spheres of light. By comparison, a mature soul arrives in these spheres as fast as lightening after its physical death since it requires neither time nor space to overcome the distance from earth into the light spheres. It only needs the strength which its state of maturity has acquired.

However, imperfect souls cannot separate themselves as swiftly from earth, partly because they are too weak to elevate themselves and partly because their senses are still attached to earthly matters. They do not want to leave earth and thus remain close to earth for a long time, mostly within the surroundings they used to occupy during their lifetime. Subsequently they cannot always feel their change from the earthly into the spiritual kingdom either. Their surrounding still appears earthly to them and the souls are frequently unaware that they are no longer physically alive. Nevertheless, they find it strange that they cannot establish a connection with the people on earth any longer, that they cannot make themselves heard and are ignored by people. This condition gradually makes them aware of their situation, they come to understand that they no longer live on earth but that they are beyond earth in the spiritual kingdom. But as long as the soul is still earthly minded it cannot remove itself from this surrounding; it is still grounded and experiences this as a painful condition because everything it desires or believes to possess is unattainable.

And now it slowly has to overcome its desire for earthly possessions; only when it has succeeded in doing so will it gradually move away from earth, the spheres will take on a different appearance, and depending on the soul's maturity it will no longer see earthly but only spiritual creations, i.e. the spiritual vision of the soul will be able to see spiritual creations which the immature being cannot see even though they are present. But when a mature soul departs from earth it can instantly distinguish its surrounding in the spiritual realm since its maturity has acquired the ability of spiritual vision. Such a soul will also recognise the souls it meets in the beyond whilst immature souls are unable to do so, i.e. they only recognise souls who walk in darkness like themselves, who are in the same imperfect state. However, beings of light are invisible to them, and even when these disguise their light and come close to them they cannot perceive them .... Spiritual vision only develops during a certain state of maturity but then the souls are also surrounded by light, while those who are unable to see due to their undeveloped spiritual vision are surrounded by spiritual darkness.

However, the earthly items they desire are visible to them; nevertheless they are mere illusions which do not really exist but which appear due to the soul's longing, only to disappear again like a mirage as soon as the soul wants to touch or use them, because their fleeting nature should make the soul understand that it ought to strive for higher values than temporary earthly possessions. Consequently, no beings of light will come close to the soul as long as it still desires such belongings, since earthly minded souls will not listen to the beings of light when they arrive in disguise to bring the Gospel. In this situation they can only be helped by the prayer of another human being, only then will they turn away from matter and look for an alternative in the spiritual realm. Then beings who are willing to help will meet them, instruct them and direct them to the path of ascent. And the more willingly they accept the light beings' instructions the sooner they will acquire spiritual vision and are thus delivered from darkness .... they have entered the spheres where they may receive and give light. They have travelled the path which can take a short but also a very long time, depending on the soul's determination for material possessions which keep it attached to earth until they lose their appeal, and are then introduced to the pure truth by the beings of light in order to work for the kingdom of God in the beyond by sharing the knowledge with needy souls who are still living in spiritual darkness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's love determines people's destiny ....

B.D. 3317 from November 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

My love constantly flows to My living creations with undiminished strength, and this love also directs people's destiny on earth. My goal for everything that happens is always spiritual maturing. Nevertheless, I play a part in every happening and its effect. I always and forever accompany the human being, perceptibly for him if he hands himself over to Me, or unnoticed, if he does not seek to be in touch with Me. My love for My living creations will never lessen, and thus you humans must always consider this love as the reason whether you encounter joy or sorrow on your earthly path, for I truly know best what helps your spiritual maturing. And therefore you should never feel despondent or be disappointed by your destiny, for since it was determined by My love it is good for you, even though you experience it painfully at times. My love applies to you for eternity, yet you fail to understand this as long as you have not changed yourselves into love; My love constantly remains the same, and the depth of My love expresses itself in My plan of Salvation, which forms the basis of every happening and every work of creation. If I did not want to save you from spiritual hardship, if I did not want to draw you to Me because I love you, the whole of Creation would not exist, for its only purpose is your approach to Me. And just as the whole of Creation arose from My love for the spiritual beings which had deserted Me, just as I let inconceivable and incalculable works arise for you in order to regain these spiritual beings, so the earthly life of the spiritual being in the embodiment as a human being is directed by My love and every detail of life is predetermined, so that you will reach the final goal of uniting yourselves with Me again. Yet you must know and believe that you are always and forever surrounded by My love and must also recognise this love in suffering, in living conditions which you find difficult to bear, in earthly failure, in sickness and misfortune of all kinds.

Were My love not to recognise that this is beneficial for you it would truly not come upon you. But I use means which can be successful for you, because My love for you is greater than great but you are in danger of being lost to Me if I spare you whatever disheartens you on earth. Put your trust in Me and My love, which will never end .... And completely hand yourselves over to My guidance, let Me take care of you in every earthly adversity and only consider your soul's salvation. Work diligently for your soul, strive towards My kingdom which is not of this world, and leave every worry about your earthly existence to Me. It will not be much longer, and you should make use of every minute by striving spiritually. I alone know every person's course of life, and it will be travelled according to My will, thus every anxious worry is unnecessary, because you cannot change what I have determined, thus you cannot improve anything through your anxious worry either. Just be kind-hearted to each other, help where you are able to help, and where your strength fails you put your trust in My help, for My help is always ready for you and will not leave you in trouble any longer than is beneficial for your soul. And even if you deem your destiny harsh, you should not doubt My love. After all, can anything come upon you without My will? And My will is determined by My wisdom and love, which forms the basis of everything that happens. Even evil is sent to you by My love for the good of your soul if you don't oppose My will and humbly accept and bear everything I send to you without resisting .... And therefore don't worry and don't despair, My love is always with you, because it can never ever become less than it was for eternity .... Just strive so that you will be able to feel this love by living a way of life according to My will, by practising love and thereby becoming capable of receiving My strength of love in you. For whether or not you make yourselves receptive to My illumination of love is entirely up to you .... However, your life will be far easier if you know yourselves to be guided and cared for by My love, if you feel Me and in everything recognise My love. Therefore remain united with Me through prayer and loving deeds, and you will receive strength on your earthly path of life and need not fear anything, regardless of what comes, for I Myself will guide you until the end of your life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's powerful voice .... The end of the battle ....

B.D. 3318 from November 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

God's voice will resound impressively and decide the fate of the nations, for God Himself will pass judgment through the forces of nature. And no-one will be able to oppose His verdict, for it will be fair and strike the people who are responsible for having caused great misery and don't want to admit their transgression. It will be an exceptionally sad event in which countless people will lose their lives, yet the event is unavoidable because people can no longer be shaken by anything that is accomplished by human will, consequently they will have to be disturbed by an event which cannot be averted or stopped by human will and which will generate enormous terror because everyone will be faced by death and has to brace himself for his demise. And this event draws ever closer, day after day passes by but humanity will not change, and God's forbearance still hesitates in order to continue granting people the opportunity of turning back before His voice resounds. Yet then worldly events will slowly come to an end because the natural disaster is in the making, because the earth's interior will be plunged into a state of turmoil and will only be waiting for God to liberate the forces of nature and allow them free reign. For people cannot stop, thus God intervenes and puts an end to it.

Appalling activities will come to a halt but the consequences will be much worse, for people will experience dreadful adversity and be at a total loss in the face of the unleashed forces of nature. They can neither escape nor impede or lessen their raging, they are at their mercy and only have one Saviour to Whom they can entrust themselves in their urgent need, to Whom they can call for help and Who has the power to help them. Yet only a few acknowledge Him, only a few feel that they are guilty and humbly await His judgment in recognition of their sinfulness. And these few will also be taken care of by God in the hours of destruction, which are sent by divine will because there is no other way of removing the spiritual adversity and the earthly hardship is constantly increased by human will. And because people will not put an end to it God will determine the end of a battle which affects the whole world. And a cry of horror will resound across earth which will paralyse people, for the magnitude of the catastrophe will make everyone pay heed and tremble in fear of a repetition. It is God's intention that the whole of humanity shall take part in it, that it shall listen to His judgment, that it shall recognise those who are guilty and God's righteousness. For every fighting party still believes itself to be in the right, only power is being valued and not the law, and God's blessing cannot rest on actions which are detestable because they oppose the divine commandment of love .... And God will punish people in the same way as they act themselves .... except that His work of destruction will be far more powerful so that they will thereby recognise Him. For even the still constrained spirits express outrage at being torn out of divine order and experience this state as painful, for although they were released through human will they are unable to enjoy their freedom since it is not the freedom of perfection, instead the spiritual substances will be deprived of the opportunity to be active and are incensed about it.

And they will work wherever the opportunity presents itself. But above all they will join other still constrained spirits and try to persuade them to also burst their shell and will help them with it. Thereby they want to force people into becoming constructively active again and provide them with the opportunity to enter new creations in order to continue their process of development. And God will not stop the spirits which will be released through human will; He will also give His consent when matter moves within the earth's interior, when the spiritual substances strive towards the light and try to burst their forms. God will briefly withdraw His will and give the spirits' will free reign which, however, due to their complete immaturity will mean a work of destruction on an enormous scale. And thus human resolve will be confronted by another will which is stronger than the former, which seemingly lacks all divine love and wisdom and finds God's full approval .... Yet humanity will not bow down to God, it will not stop its battle of annihilation, it is possessed by demons and allows itself to be driven by them, it is more and more enslaved by the evil power and proves this by its works and actions. And in order to put a stop to this decline, God's will and omnipotence steps into obvious action. He will shake the earth and with it the human race so that it may come to its senses and change. For it is the last time which can still be used for the souls. And this is why God's voice will resound powerfully, and He calls to people: Stop your raging which drags your souls into ruin; change your ways before it is too late and remember the One Who rules over heaven and earth, Who is your Creator and Provider and Whose love you trample under your feet .... Consider your end, for it is soon about to happen ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemption of matter .... idleness .... activity ....

B.D. 3319 from November 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

What serves the body for its preservation will at the same time mature spiritually, for it fulfils its assigned purpose and thus follows the course of ascent development. And that is why every object, every matter, is assigned a task, and this task must be a useful one, it must signify a work of love for the work of creation to which the object is applied, the latter must require precisely these things for its preservation, then one can speak of a serving purpose of matter. And the human being should promote the maturing of the spiritual in matter by contributing to the transformation of it into useful objects, by creating and shaping according to his ability, by producing things which serve fellow human beings or other works of creation according to their nature. The human being himself should be active in serving neighbourly love, and he should also help matter to serve, so that a general process of redemption takes place, which always presupposes a serving activity. And love must underlie everything. For as soon as something is created to the detriment of fellow human beings or other works of creation, the spiritual substance will not be redeemed but forced into God-opposing actions, and it can never develop upwards but, after its release from the form, it has to animate the same form again until this form has fulfilled its serving purpose .... This means a prolonged stay in a shell which becomes a torment for the spiritual. And the spiritual takes revenge on the human being who let the form come into being in order to harm his fellow human beings; it takes revenge in the most diverse ways, however it will always afflict the soul more than the body, the human being will spiritually sink into the depths of darkness, just as conversely a human being who helps a lot of matter to be of service and thus contributes towards its redemption will be supported in his spiritual striving by the spiritual which has been released through human help. The human being can contribute a great deal to the redemption of matter, but he also finds support himself through it in his ascent development. For a great deal of matter is dependent on human help, it is waiting to be processed, to be transformed into useful objects in which the spiritual can now fulfil its serving task, as is its destiny. For this reason a regulated activity, a constant utilization of matter, will always carry its blessing, just as idleness does not correspond to God's will, for the human being does not fulfil his purpose, he does not serve in love .... An idler will also not feel love within himself, otherwise love would drive him to activity. He will also not achieve spiritual success because the latter only causes love .... love for his fellow human being, which expresses itself in service. A serving task is inherent in every work of creation, even if the spiritual serves it in a state of compulsion; but the human being is free to be active in a serving way, yet he has countless opportunities to contribute to the preservation of the works of creation, just as he also has countless opportunities to prove himself useful to his fellow human being. And thus he can express his love, he can be active in creating and shaping and create countless things which fulfil a serving purpose .... He can contribute to the higher development of the spiritual, which is embodied in the forms his hands have created, and this spiritual will thank him eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Busy activity for the kingdom of God commanded ....

B.D. 3320 from November 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

To be continuously instructed also gives the obligation to continuously use the knowledge which the human being receives. And therefore he should put spiritual work, work for the kingdom of God, before all other work and not worry about his earthly duties, for God Himself reduces these in order to relieve His servants if they are to be active for Him. Only the human being himself must not slacken in his zeal. He must always imagine the great spiritual hardship which can only be remedied through active activity on earth and in the beyond, through activity which brings light, so that people will be shown the right path which leads out of darkness into light. The beings of light of the spiritual kingdom are constantly active in order to guide light to earth, yet on earth only a few people open themselves to the rays of light of eternal truth in order to receive them into their hearts and then distribute to their fellow human beings what they themselves possess. Yet these few are called to bring light into the darkness of night .... And these few should use all their strength for this task, they should have no qualms about insufficiently fulfilling their earthly task, for they have a task which is far more important, for which not many people make themselves available and which should therefore be given priority over every other activity. Divine love directs their tools such that they can fulfil their task at any time, and thus they should only carry out what they are, so to speak, driven to do from within; they should always and constantly entrust themselves to divine guidance, and their course of life will be regulated and the paths of spiritual work will be opened. For countless souls are in need, believers and unbelievers .... For the believers also need comfort and strength, and the supply of pure truth, of the divine word, is also extremely significant for them, because the spiritual darkness in humanity oppresses them, even though they stand in faith. The word of God is strength from above which strengthens the soul, and all people on earth need this strength; and if people cannot receive the divine word directly, if they are unable to hear the divine voice within themselves, the word has to be conveyed to them. And this is the activity of those who are recipients of the divine word, who should constantly receive a precious gift of grace and therefore also constantly distribute it, because this is the purpose of the direct imparting of the divine word to earth. The receiver has to give in order to be able to receive all the more abundantly; he has to convey the word of God to the needy and therefore be diligently active in the work for the kingdom of God. And the blessing will not fail to come, for every industrious labourer in the vineyard of the lord is worthy of his reward .... Earthly the proclaimer of the divine word will be cared for and protected so that he can work in silence, and spiritually it will help him to progress, for he will be measured out as he himself measures out. For time is pressing and there are only a few workers who are willing to devote themselves to God's kingdom, who can receive His word and thus spread the pure truth amongst people. And they should be constantly active and only ever strive to fulfil God's will first ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last judgment .... punishment for sin and act of grace ....

B.D. 3321 from November 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Fear and terror will befall people in view of the end and their helplessness, for all but the few who are faithful to God lack faith in a loving, wise and omnipotent God, in a continuation of life after death and in a spiritual kingdom. They only believe what they see and see its downfall, and thus their condition is hopeless. They have valued earthly life too highly and now realize their powerlessness to prolong it by just one hour, and the imperfection of their souls terrifies them, for they fear death. They feel it unconsciously that the soul is approaching an exceedingly agonizing state, that there is no existence of extinction for the soul, and in their inadequate maturity of soul they must therefore fear the end or come to faith .... The believing human being looks forward to the end with peace of mind, for he knows that he is protected as long as he lives on earth .... and even life after his death does not frighten him, after all, it is the actual life for him which was the purpose and aim of his earthly life .... Yet the last days will be dreadful, for all the forces of darkness will unite and rage against the light on earth in order to drag it down into darkness. And the believers will be in extreme distress from which death will appear to them as redemption. And that is why they long for the last hours, they anxiously await the recall from this earth and hope for the coming of the lord, which precedes the last judgment. And from this they draw the strength to resist .... But satan rages until the last hour has come .... Men excel in cruelty and act outrageously against the believers .... Then judgment comes upon them .... flames burst forth from the earth and consume everything they seize. And the people see death before their eyes, which they cannot escape. Yet their hardship and fear do not outweigh the amount of sins they have incurred during the time of persecution against those who are faithful to God, for this amount is overflowing and can only be paid off through the banishment in solid matter, so that the beingness in this matter will pay off the guilt through the long time of imprisonment. And no human being will escape his fate, which he has created for himself through his way of life .... The fear and horror will be overwhelming for the guilty .... the bliss at the coming of the lord will be the same for the believers, and all misery on earth will come to an end for a long time. People cannot imagine what will happen at the last judgement. The power of God punishes everything that is contrary to Him .... Satan himself will be bound and with him all powers that were in bondage to him. And the earth at that time will be a place of living devils, fully in the power of their lord .... Yet they did not follow him forcedly but voluntarily, and therefore also all God's opponents who will now feel the wrath of God ....

They have to atone for their sinfulness, they have to endure unspeakable torments because they are in extreme remoteness from God and this means total powerlessness and hardest imprisonment, a state which is unimaginably agonizing for the once powerful spiritual that can move in freedom, since it does not lose the consciousness of existence. And yet, even this act of banishment in the most solid matter is an act of grace by God to help this spiritual to become free after all, to give it the opportunity to reach the original state again. But the magnitude of the guilt of sin also determines the measure of the torment; the torment is indeed a punishment, an expiation for the sins, but at the same time a corrective, a means for the transformation of the spiritual being, which is completely distant from God, into beings which strive for God. The fact that this means is of such harshness, which appears cruel to people, is humanity's own fault in the last days on this earth, because the spiritual, which is already in the stage of free will, regresses to the utmost depth, despite all God's accommodating help which wants to prevent the spiritual from doing so. People make a mockery of God's love, they pay no attention to His word, to His servants and prophets, they let all earthly events pass them by unimpressed; their free will turns downwards towards the one who fights against God and thus they become like him. This can only result in a complete banishment from God, and this complete banishment is always a state of greatest agony because only closeness to God makes the being happy and distance from God completely contradicts the being's original state. If God wants to give the fallen being the opportunity to return to Him again, it has to go through the agony of distance from Him so that it will change of its own will and strive towards God again. Initially, however, it is so opposed to God that it cannot muster this will, and therefore its stay in solid matter lasts an infinitely long time. But God knows when the stubbornness of the will begins to weaken, and then He also loosens the cover of the spiritual, and the quicker the more yielding the spiritual shows itself in form. This is the only way by which the spiritual can again reach the state of free will, which now again confronts it with the decision. For this must absolutely be made in complete freedom of will. Therefore also the coming judgement is only an act to regain the spiritual, although it is connected with a hard atonement for the measure of sin, which men burden themselves with in the last time before the end. An upward development, that is, a change of will on this earth, no longer exists, and therefore all life will end. A time of God-connectedness and guiltlessness begins again for the few whom God takes from the earth before, whom He has destined for the procreation of the human race, after all other people have been deprived of bodily life, so that they can no longer harass the few good, God-loyal people. For this is the end, that God separates the good from the bad, that He rewards the good and punishes the bad .... that the former may lead a paradisiacal life on the new earth and the latter are condemned to endless imprisonment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ability to work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3322 from November 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The higher spiritual aims a person sets himself, the more strength is imparted to him, for he thereby expresses his will, which is turned towards God. The human being who strives spiritually will never be without love and therefore also not without strength and grace. And therefore his aim is also attainable, for through love he is able to do everything. Even abilities he lacks can be imparted to him if he needs them in order to progress spiritually. All weakness will fall away from him and he will be able to accomplish what he sets out to do and unstoppably progress upwards. For his strength is love .... And therefore no person need feel powerless who lives in love. But if he does not lack strength he also does not lack knowledge, and knowledge is a sign of progress, thus of spiritual maturity. But where there is a degree of spiritual maturity there must also be light and brightness, and the light shines into the darkness .... Thus every receiver of light must also radiate its light to its surroundings, it can never conceal the light otherwise it would have no effect. And therefore a recipient of light will also have to emit the light, the wisdom from God, i.e. he will feel urged himself to send it into the darkness .... to pass on the divine wisdom. But he will only do so when he believes himself to be sufficiently permeated by light. For light has the property that it shines brightly and illuminates the darkness around it ..... Therefore the spiritual light .... the knowledge which corresponds to truth .... cannot be kept hidden by a person who is illuminated by it himself. It will fill him in such a way that he opens himself and lets it emanate .... As long as he does not do this, he himself is not yet so permeated by divine truth that it makes him come alive. For life is activity, and only when he is constantly active does the strength of love express itself, he himself becomes alive .... he now remains in a constant receiving and giving, and through giving he increases the wealth of receiving and pours it out again to the destitute, the ignorant, whose lightless state brings his love to unfold, so that he gives without restriction. And therefore even the most incapable will acquire the ability to distribute light; he will be able and also want to do so, for if he receives light himself he must stand in love, thus he must want to, and love gives him strength so that he can also let the light radiate ....

The more the spiritual takes possession of a person the less earthly minded he will be until he is finally so fulfilled that he only lives in the spiritual kingdom although he still walks on earth. And then he absolutely has to radiate his fulfilling light to his surroundings, for he will act and speak impelled by God's spirit; he will not need earthly ability but become able through God's spirit, which is now working in him. But this only ever appears when it is necessary to enlighten erring souls, when a field is to be cultivated for the reception of good seed. Then the human being filled with God's spirit will only express himself when he realizes that help can be brought to his fellow human beings through the proclamation of the divine word, while the human being's nature otherwise remains unchanged towards his fellow human beings. Thus a servant of God does not need to be a skilful speaker, he will be able to speak and also do so if God's spirit working in him deems it necessary and successful, for it guides him, his thinking, speaking and acting. The human being's natural inability is not an obstacle, it is only transformed into ability in the moments of spiritual radiation so that the human being can be active for the kingdom of God. Light and strength always want to express themselves and assert themselves, light wants to penetrate darkness, strength wants to invigorate and strengthen the weakened .... and where both are active, human dispositions are no obstacle .... But light is wisdom, thus the outflow of the divine spirit, strength is the outflow of divine love .... And once a person has attained wisdom through loving activity, he must be permeated by light and strength and thus also able to let both flow out again to his surroundings. And therefore every serious spiritual aspirant will be able to give to his fellow human beings what he himself possesses, what he has received as a result of his activity of love. And this is especially true in the last days for which God has awakened people whose will and way of life has earned them extraordinary blessings so that they can mature more quickly on earth because they show themselves worthy of it. These people will be trained by God for their later activity, they will first be instructed in divine truth and as soon as they are knowledgeable they will be employed for the kingdom of God .... And God will also endow them with the ability to work for Him .... He will provide them with everything they need for their task in the coming time. He will spiritually direct their lives and help them to overcome earthly desires; He will alienate them from earth so that they can strive unhindered towards the ascent in order to then also be able to work like this when the time has come. For what God teaches He instructs, and what He instructs shall also be active for Him, and thus He enables every person who wants to serve Him as a labourer in His vineyard ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Extraordinary mission .... light ....

B.D. 3323 from November 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

An unusual mission also requires unusual training, and this is given to that human being by God Himself, whose soul offers itself to God for this mission. This extraordinary task consists of giving people a living example of the working of the spirit in the last days, in the coming battle of faith, of providing them with proof of the connection between the earthly and the spiritual world, of God's direct connection with people on earth. This is no easy task, for the human being has to work very hard on himself in order to attain a degree of maturity which allows for this evidence. He has to live according to God's will in order to be able to be used as His instrument, and he has to absorb great knowledge in order to be able to testify to God's love, wisdom and omnipotence. The imparting of this knowledge happens through regular instructions which the human being has to accept of his own free will. He must want, i.e. desire, wisdom from God, otherwise it cannot be offered to him. Hence the mission is entirely dependent on his free will, and it is this will which now also enables the human being to accomplish the task given to him, for only a strong will will stand firm and steadfastly pursue its aim in the last days of the battle of faith. The knowledge which is presented to the human being on God's behalf and by God Himself gives him clear knowledge about the original beginning and final aim of every work of creation and thus also of the human being himself. But as soon as the human being has this knowledge he strives towards God, and through a life of love he unites himself with Him. And now light and strength can flow into him .... the spirit of God can work in the human being, thus the human being himself can testify to God's love, omnipotence and wisdom. But such a testimony can help the unbelievers to believe. And this is the purpose, it is the task incumbent upon the human being who is trained by God Himself for His mission. He should use all his knowledge and insight to change unbelief into faith by passing on his knowledge, by serving his fellow human beings as an example of the success a life of faith can result in and how closely the human being can unite with God if he has the right faith, thus also lives out what the right faith demands. In order to impressively prove the truth to fellow human beings a person must be able to present himself as an example, he must always be able to establish a direct connection with God, and the success of such a connection must be obvious to fellow human beings, then it will be made easy for them to believe, and this is an extraordinary help for the unbelievers which God grants to those who only listen to His servants, thus who do not reject them unheard. And yet, it is a mission which requires a strong will, for in order to reach this degree of maturity, that he, as a true servant of God, is suitable for this work, he must constantly strive upwards, he must constantly let his will become active, for he will not be influenced or forced into knowledge against his will but he must acquire it himself, he must strive for every divine instruction of his own free will, request it and put himself into a state that he is able to hear God's voice. It is an extraordinary process which, however, is also extraordinarily effective if only it is heeded. The human being's will earns him knowledge, and this knowledge in turn is intended to stimulate his fellow human being's will to reach the same state of spiritual maturity.

People can only be placed into a bright state by transmitting wisdom from the spiritual kingdom, for light comes from the heavens but earth is in darkness as long as the light from the heavens does not touch it. Darkness is ignorance, darkness is a state without any spiritual knowledge and therefore a state of remoteness from God, for God Himself is the light, God is wisdom, and thus nearness to God means knowledge of pure truth. And thus this truth has to be conveyed to people who are distant from God so that their distance from God will be thereby reduced .... provided that the human being has the will to approach Him. But what is currently offered from person to person on earth is no longer the pure truth, instead, it is often contaminated by erroneous teachings and additions which do not correspond to the truth. As a result the ray of light is clouded, it no longer has the strength of its original effect, it is a twilight in which people wander about, undecided about the path they should take and hardly recognizing the right one. And it is extremely difficult to bring a bright ray of light into this twilight, for people do not like to accept a light bearer, they feel comfortable in their state of twilight and fear that a bright ray of light could reveal what they would like to keep hidden. And therefore the paths of a light bearer will not be very paved by people, and if God Himself would not lead him by the hand his attempt would be unsuccessful, the light would be extinguished before it could exert its effect. And that is why it requires a strong will, a constant connection with God, the eternal light, a constant reception of light and strength in free will and a profound unshakeable faith to be able to carry out this mission with God's help. And where God finds such a will and a joyful devotion to Him, there the supply of knowledge from the spiritual kingdom to earth can also proceed, and all spiritual beings of light are willing to convey this knowledge, the spiritual truth, to the human being on God's behalf. Thus a work had to begin which appears extraordinary for people on earth but which also initiates an extraordinary mission .... to bring pure truth to people, to offer something purely spiritual to earthly-minded people in order to thereby guide them into the right realization. This is an extraordinary undertaking and yet it has to be tackled in order to bring salvation to the erring souls which do not completely close themselves to the effect of the rays of light before the end has come, which is imminent ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spheres of light .... meet again .... bliss ....

B.D. 3324 from November 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

After the death of its body the mature soul will rise like a cloud of light from the earthly realm into the spheres of the beyond, and then it will have overcome all matter, then it will be free from every bondage, it will be again what it originally was, a free spiritual being full of light and strength. It is only visible and recognizable to the equally mature spiritual being, which is therefore able to see spiritually, whereas it remains invisible to the immature spiritual being, thus it cannot be recognized by it either. And therefore there can be no reunion between the mature and the immature spirits, thus between the souls departed from earth, which enter the beyond in different states of maturity, until the imperfect spirit has attained a certain degree of maturity which opens the spheres of light to it. The imperfect spiritual substance can indeed be recognized by the beings of light, for they see everything and nothing is hidden from them; thus they also know every soul which is still in spiritual darkness, but they cannot be recognized by them. But the souls' longing for their loved ones is sometimes so strong that it is a driving force for higher development in the beyond as soon as the soul has entered the stage of recognition and knows about the possibility of ascent in the spiritual kingdom through loving activity. Then it is restlessly active because the desire for souls close to it constantly drives it upwards. For it recognizes its own kind and therefore knows that it will also see its loved ones again, and this awareness gives it strength again and again, and this strength is supplied to it by precisely those beings which are the aim of its longing; they can convey strength to the souls, yet unrecognized by them. If they approach them to give them helpful advice, then they cover themselves because the immature souls cannot bear their abundance of light. Thus they see themselves surrounded by beings who are, however, alien to them and who seemingly do not belong to any other sphere of light than themselves. But since they assist them with advice and deeds the imperfect souls are grateful and favoured by them and they follow their advice. And thus the mature beings draw their loved ones towards them until they have reached a degree of maturity where they become receivers of light. Then they are also able to see spiritually, they recognize their surroundings, they recognize the beings of light of equal maturity, and their bliss constantly increases because they can unite with those, because they see their loved ones again and now in turn assist those again who languish in the darkness of spirit. Only when the degree of maturity is reached which allows spiritual seeing is the soul free from all burden, for then it too stands in the light, in the realization of pure truth and in love. And every activity it now carries out is blissful because only love impels it to do so and loving activity always triggers bliss. Merging with equally mature souls which complement each other in most intimate harmony is the actual bliss, for it is most intimate love which seeks and finds union. And love is always blissful if it applies to the purely spiritual, for it is giving, not demanding. And yet this love culminates in the desire for God, in the final union with Him. And this desire will always be fulfilled, for the being may desire God at any time and it can also count on the satisfaction of its longing at any time, for God constantly gives, He constantly distributes His love and thereby makes the inhabitants of the spiritual kingdom the most blissful beings .... Their bliss is inconceivable, for love and light fill those spheres where the beings are allowed to dwell close to God, Who is eternal love and the source of light Himself ....

Amen

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Feeding the light and power current ....

B.D. 3325 from November 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

To be close to the primal light means light and strength in all abundance .... for the primal light, the eternal love itself, continues to radiate light and strength, and recipients are all beings who have found union with the eternal love through love. All these beings are permeated by light, for everything about them is purified spiritual substance which can receive God's permeation of love unhindered. Consequently, these beings are also light and strength, and since they constantly receive they also constantly give away light and strength, because this is their activity in the spiritual kingdom, to pass on light and strength. And the being will always be able to receive its spiritual substance accordingly .... For this spiritual substance can have many different characteristics, depending on the being's degree of love. Pure, selfless love is the prerequisite for God's emanation of love to touch a being, yet the radiation of light and strength can take place in infinitely many gradations, for the being can attain ever higher perfection, thus let the strength of its love take effect ever more intensively, which is why there is no limit to beatitude in eternity but it can increase because the being can always approach God and be seized ever more intimately by His love. There is a constant flow of light and strength from God into all spheres of light, and understandably the light and strength is strongest at the original source of the flow, which is why the highest bliss is also there, which prepares the beings for both receiving and giving. However, the beings of light have no self-love whatsoever and therefore the passing on of light makes them extraordinarily happy, for their love has to be active and thus they always consider the spiritual, which is in a lower degree of maturity and strives upwards. The final union with God is the aim of all spiritual which stands in recognition, thus has already found entrance into the spheres of light. The bliss of receiving therefore drives them again and again to help people who dwell in darkness, who are still devoid of all love and therefore languish in greatest adversity. They are without light and without strength and therefore also without bliss, and this pities the souls of light. They try to help them by informing them of the power and strength of love, by trying to persuade them to help other souls in need. For without love no human being can become blissfully happy, and without love no soul can purify itself, but without purification no light can be received either .... This mission of the beings of light is to participate in Christ's act of salvation, which Jesus began on earth and which is continued in the spiritual kingdom by all beings who have united with Him through love .... For only the redeemed can come close to God, only the redeemed can receive His emanation of light and strength and therefore become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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God reveals Himself .... promises ....

B.D. 3326 from November 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

My will is made known to you who devote yourselves to Me and want to serve Me .... For I Myself speak to you now and always, as I have always spoken to people who, through the working of love, made themselves able to hear My voice. I was amongst them in the word and will always dwell with people in the word until the end of the world. For I have promised My own that I will reveal Myself to them if they love Me and keep My commandments .... that I will guide them into truth and that they shall receive My spirit .... But My spirit is My word, My spirit is Me Myself, and thus I Myself am with those who love Me and keep My commandments, and therefore they can also hear My word directly from Me, for I reveal Myself through the inner voice and make My will known to them. And thus My disciples heard My voice, I was with them in the word after My act of salvation had been accomplished; they heard Me even though I was not physically present amongst them, and they recorded the word because this was My will. In all purity they reproduced what they had heard through the inner voice, for My word resounded in them clearly and distinctly so that they always and constantly knew about My will. And they conveyed this word to humanity so that My will would be proclaimed to all, so that they could comply with this will and thus become blissfully happy. But time has not preserved this word of Mine pure and unaltered, not everything is My word which is conveyed to people as such. It has been changed by additional human work, which can only be separated from the pure truth, from the word conveyed by Me to earth, by those who are able to hear the word again themselves through loving activity and the will to serve Me. My word will never be able to pass away, pure truth will always exist, it will remain until all eternity .... but the work of man does not last .... What therefore falls prey to human will of destruction, what becomes powerless and ineffective due to decrees and commandments, that is human accessory; for what is from Me is everlasting and will outlast everything. But I strive for a purification of that which is offered to people as My word and no longer fully corresponds to the word which is from Me, which My disciples have received from Me .... And therefore I direct the word to earth again, I reveal Myself anew and choose My disciples again whom I guide through My spirit into all truth. For I will always be amongst people in the word and hand them the bread of heaven, and especially when they are starving and lack spiritual food, food which shall revive their soul .... Then I open the spring from which the living water flows; I feed and water people by offering them the nourishment from the heavens .... My word .... My flesh and My blood .... Who wants to stop Me from doing this? .... Who wants to accept My divine working of the spirit as finished with the word that was commanded to My disciples? I remain with you until the end of the world .... this is My promise .... Why should I not speak to My own if their heart desires it? And you humans need My word which shall repeatedly make My will known to you. For the word has lost its strength if it is no longer purely offered to people, just as My disciples once heard it from Me .... But you humans need the strength which flows from My word, and thus I will give you the pure truth again, I will descend to earth once more in the word and will resound wherever people who are willing and able to love offer themselves to Me for My service and listen within in order to hear My word. And you should listen to them, for they convey the purest truth to you, they inform you of My will and initiate you into knowledge which only I Myself can convey to earth through My word .... And therefore believe that I speak to people again and again and am with them in the word ....

Amen

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Consequences of thought and action .... will decision ....

B.D. 3327 from November 12th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Man is given the freedom to think and act according to his will. Consequently, he must also take the effect of his thinking and acting upon himself, his thinking will earn him truth or error, depending on his will, his acting reward or punishment .... And he can make no one responsible for it but himself. But in order for his thoughts and actions to take the right direction which will bring him truth and reward, God, in His love, comes to his aid by giving him instructions, by informing him of His will which the human being should use as a guideline for his thoughts and actions. Thus He puts Himself in contact with the human being through His servants on earth and in the beyond by imparting His word to them through them, by giving His servants the task to proclaim His will to people and to preach the word of God to them. Thus He gives them enlightenment about good and evil, about right and wrong, but He leaves it up to the human being what he wants to decide. The human being is initially without any knowledge of what is right before God, but he can gain this knowledge if God’s word is imparted to him. However, he is not forced to accept it but only encouraged to do so, and again his free will decides; yet he can never say that it has to decide in one direction, he can never say that he lacks all knowledge of God's will, for God always informs him, only in different ways. For since God gave the human being free will, the possibility to make a decision absolutely belongs to it, and this again presupposes knowledge of God's will, otherwise the human being could not be held responsible. So He will not withhold this knowledge of divine will from him either .... But how he attunes himself to it is up to him. But the state of knowledge, the degree of truth he now finds himself in, and also the measure of bliss in the kingdom of the beyond is corresponding, for both are the consequences of his free decision of will .... thus the human being himself shapes his life in the beyond through his will ....

Amen

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Concord of spiritual results .... Truth ....

B.D. 3328 from November 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The thoughts and words of all those who are enlightened by the spirit of God will be in complete concord, for they are all educated by God's spirit and can endorse the same truth, because they received the latter from God through His spirit. But the concord of thoughts does not depend on people belonging to the same school of faith, they need merely spiritually be on the same path, i.e., their life must correspond to God's will by actively practising neighbourly love. This awakens the indwelling spirit to life which can subsequently instruct them, that is, guide them into truth. But people who are spiritually awakened by the spirit of God will mostly pursue different goals than those which are generally required by ecclesiastical organisations. They will not keep to external formalities so much but make the heart of the matter, Christ's teaching of love, their guiding principle of life, hence, they will live their life according to this teaching of love, although in their obedience to the church they belong to, they also fulfil its laws. But the fulfilment of ecclesiastical commandments does not help them to become spiritually awake, only the fulfilment of the divine commandments, which require love, does that, this is why someone not belonging to an external church community but living a life of love can also be spiritually enlightened. For he belongs to the church of Christ, which comprises the community of believers, to the church which was founded by Christ with the Words 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church ....' This community of believers can be composed of the most varied ecclesiastical organisations, for there will be truly devout people who practise love in each one and in whom the spirit of God can work. But they will be of like mind, they will endorse the same direction of thought, muster the same understanding for spiritual problems, strive towards the same goal, because the spirit of God guides them into truth, and this can never contradict itself. And the hallmark, the characteristic of the church of Christ, rests in the fact that all members are of like mind, but that they do not advocate externally acquired spiritual knowledge imparted to them by fellow human beings; instead, they have received the truth themselves from within, for even externally imparted mental information must first become a person's possession through the working of the spirit before he can endorse it. However, earthly ecclesiastical organisations demand unconditional acceptance of teachings which were conveyed to them from external sources; they devise a code of belief the rejection of which they portray as sin, thus people are not permitted to voice any opinion.

This is not faith .... it is not spiritually attained mental knowledge, which can be endorsed with full conviction if the person has not formed an earnest opinion of it first. The spirit of God can therefore not work in those people, since due to their lack of serious deliberation they do not provide it with the opportunity to answer their questions, to instruct them and to correct errors .... Hence the working of God's spirit is made impossible; it cannot express itself because it is not approached for an explanation. Therefore, such people will also agree in their opinions and thoughts, nevertheless, they only dutifully repeat what is demanded of them but do not uphold personally gained thoughts which were born in them of their profound desire for pure truth .... Thus it is not their own mental knowledge but is adopted from other people and therefore not their own spiritual spark's working .... Yet the working of the divine spirit is also credited to results which are far removed from truth, because people have no idea when and where the spirit of God is able to work .... because they associate the working of the spirit with a person of reputable position or distinction .... The spirit of God works wherever He wants .... but only where a heart willing and capable of love allows for this working, where God's prerequisites are fulfilled in order to be able to impart the pure truth to people through His spirit .... And these prerequisites can be fulfilled by all people, irrespective of which school of thought they belong to and what position they hold on earth .... Consequently, the truth can only be found where the spirit of God is at work, but it will always concur. As soon as different spiritual results and thoughts emerge, this cannot be considered the working of the spirit, and then there must be an investigation into where the preconditions had been disregarded. For the spirit of God always instructs people in the same truth, which is eternal and unchanging .... but which will, time and again, be conveyed to earth in purity where people, through a selfless life of love, awaken their spirit, which will then instruct them from within ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Personal responsibility .... Dogma ....

B.D. 3329 from November 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Every human being is personally responsible for his soul, and thus he has to justify himself for every bad deed as well as for every omission of a good deed. He can neither blame other people for his guilt nor can he have it compensated by others, but he has to make

Amends himself on earth or in the beyond. And likewise, he alone is able to raise his state of maturity, it cannot be given to him as a gift, but he has to make an effort to live his life in accordance with God’s will. Thus he has to accept the care for his soul’s salvation himself, because no other human being can relieve him of this. Subsequently, he also has to inform himself of God’s will and accept His Word, which reveals the divine will to him. And then he has to let God’s Word take effect on him. He therefore should not blindly believe what people want to present to him but first has to compare it with God’s Word, and only if it completely corresponds to the latter may he submit himself to its influence.

If the human being is responsible for himself he is also responsible for his own mental concepts. Consequently he is duty-bound to scrutinise whatever is offered to him, because this is precisely what he is answerable for. He cannot excuse himself with having been offered errors and thus he became unable to find the truth, but he has to make his own effort to discover the truth, which will also be offered to him if he asks for it. Since God will hold him to account one day He will first give him every opportunity to be able to recognise and live up to what is right. However, when the human being relies on what is given to him by other people he is bypassing all personal responsibility, he tries to unload it on the other person who has educated him. Yet God has given him intellect and the gift of thought, and by using this gift he can chose for himself what is right and wanted by God and act accordingly, consequently he can also be held to account ....

Therefore, academically imparted spiritual knowledge, thus including teachings accepted by the person in the form of formal education, cannot suffice to gain complete knowledge of God’s will as long as it does not, by way of his own reflection, awaken and increase a sense of responsibility in the human being .... And on serious reflection the human being will realise which teachings were given by God to people and which teachings have been added to them by people. Thus, in order to be answerable in the future, the human being first has to deal with the received knowledge and in doing so, providing he has a desire for truth, he will also be able to distinguish between truth and error. Whereas a dogmatic teaching will stifle his sense of responsibility in him, indeed it will have to stifle it, because the faith in it or the fulfilment of what is demanded will become a purely mechanical matter and the person no longer feels responsible for what he believes to do conscientiously. Because whatever he does is done by him with a certain amount of obligation since it is demanded of him .... It is not an act of free will, albeit he is also able to refuse or ignore the demand, but the inner urge is missing which should be the reason for every action, for everything demanded by God from people.

The human being should be conscious of the fact that God only values what he does for love, that his thinking and actions should therefore only be governed by love and that every lack of love is a sin against God, Who is love Himself, and that the human being has to be answerable for this. Thus, whatever he is ordered to do, whatever he is duty-bound to do, negates free thought and action. And the human being effectively only gives account to the world, i.e. to those who have imposed a duty on him. For this reason the soul cannot benefit greatly if the human being does not act and think from within. Consequently, since no person can ever assume responsibility for another person’s soul but the human being has to accept this for himself, he is also obliged to scrutinise whether his thoughts and actions coincide with God’s will, and therefore he has to know God’s will, which is imparted to him through His Word. And thus God’s Word has to be the foundation and not human interpretations and additions; and in order to examine this, in order to be accountable one day, a deeply felt relationship with God is necessary, Who will then mentally reveal His will to the person who has the desire for truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

World renewal .... "No stone will be left unturned ...."

B.D. 3330 from November 14th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The renewal of the world can only begin when the old world is completely destroyed, and thus the word will also be fulfilled: "Not one stone will be left upon another." This is to be understood spiritually and earthly, a total spiritual upheaval will take place, and therefore a spiritual disruption, a state of dissolution, must also occur first, just as nothing will remain in existence earthly which was before. And both will be accomplished by human will itself. Earthly creations will be destroyed by human will, earthly institutions and circumstances will be untenable and thus many earthly changes will be made which will finally have the effect of the dissolution of matter. And this dissolution will also be observed spiritually, for initially all schools of thought will go against each other, one will be opposed by the other, the earthly authorities will take action against each one, and finally the battle of faith will break out which wants to make all spiritual striving impossible .... People want to eradicate all faith in something imperishable, spiritual and in a higher power .... And God also allows this, because all this must precede the spiritual change, because something new is to emerge from the chaos, something pure, purified, strong spiritual, and this requires the final destruction and dissolution of the old world .... Not one stone will be left upon another .... If the human being is attentive he recognizes the decay and therefore he also knows that the end is not far away. And even if everything threatens to sink into spiritual and earthly chaos, the human being should save himself from it, he should stand firm and not let this decay spread to himself. And even if everything around him sinks, he should keep his head above water; he should always stretch out his hands upwards, he should let himself be drawn by divine fatherly love so that he will not sink when everything sinks .... He should want from the bottom of his heart to experience the new world, to emerge unscathed from the spiritual and earthly chaos, healthy in his soul and full of hope for a new time which is spiritually and earthly peaceful, because God Himself is close to the people who survive this last time of dissolution .... For the evil will perish, it will no longer be able to rage on earth and thus will also no longer afflict people who are united with God through love .... And therefore the world will renew itself, it will no longer be the old earth, for not one stone will remain upon another, and the old earth must undergo this process of transformation, it must become a new earth, also purely materially, creations must pass away and new ones arise, because the spiritual renewal also necessitates a renewal of earthly creations at the same time .... nothing can remain as it was before because a new purpose is assigned to the creations and therefore the old creation has to completely dissolve according to God's eternal plan of salvation .... Everything will be changed but will not perish eternally, it will take on a different form because the old form no longer fulfils its purpose .... And this has to happen because it has been determined since eternity .... and because humanity's will has reached a point where it is far more destructive than constructive, and this is a violation of divine order. Therefore this must have such an effect that earthly and spiritual chaos arises, and this is the end of the old earth .... But out of this comes a new world .... a world of peace, a spiritual and earthly paradise .... in which love reigns, because the eternal love Itself dwells amongst people who remained faithful to It even in the most difficult battle ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s word imperishable .... indestructible ....

B.D. 3331 from November 15th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Everything that God's will has brought into being is indestructible. Human will can indeed seemingly destroy a work of creation accessible to it, but it is only a change of the external form, for the actual life, the life of the spirit in the shell destroyed by people, remains and visibly appears before people again in a new external shell. So, to a certain extent, outer creations can fall victim to man, but this never results in a perishing of their inner life. But works can also come into being through God's will which are intended to testify to His might and power, His wisdom and His love for the purpose of the human being's spiritual upward development. And God also protects these works from the human will to destroy in order to prove His power and strength through them. These are works which also come into being in an extraordinary way and which are therefore also recognizable as visible work of God. If these works would not withstand the human will to destroy, they would also miss the purpose, so to speak, because they are meant to be recognized as divine gifts and must therefore be imperishable. Such an imperishable work of God is His word, which He directs to earth in an extraordinary way .... The divine word is intended to be the basis for people according to which they can arrange their lives if they want to ascend. The divine word announces God's will, and only few people are able to hear the word of God themselves through their inner voice. Consequently, it has to be conveyed to them, it has to be accessible to all fellow human beings so that they can receive the divine word within themselves again if they are willing to listen to God. The individual human being who is able to hear God's voice cannot spread the word of God to the extent that all people receive the will of God. God, however, does not convey His word to earth because of a human being but through a human being for all who want to hear it ..... And therefore this has to happen in a form which enables the spreading of His word .... in the form of transcripts which reproduce in detail what the recipient of the divine word is able to hear through the inner voice .... And this transcript is His work, His manifestation of strength, the evidence of His love, wisdom and omnipotence .... And this work of His is everlasting so that it may fulfil its purpose which is assigned to it.

It is not human work, it is not human thought that is written down, but the human being's intellectual activity only sets in afterwards in order to mentally assimilate what is received, and consequently a spiritual power is at work, which the human being may call whatever he wants. But it testifies to a supernatural working, and what comes into being by supernatural means is also immune to natural action by human hand or human will. The purpose of this work is a purely spiritual one, and therefore spiritual forces are also the originators, but these are always the executors of divine will. But what comes into being in divine will remains until it has fully and completely fulfilled its purpose. Countless people are still to be informed of God’s word which guides His love for earth, and therefore this word must still be made accessible to many people, which can only happen by spreading the scriptures which contain the word of God. But once God has conceived this plan He will not let it be thwarted by human will, He will not let what flows forth from Him fall prey to people's arbitrariness .... but He will protect His work for the sake of people who desire it and derive the greatest benefit from it. And therefore a protective wall will always be drawn around a visible gift of God which shall make Him and His working recognizable. It will not be touched or affected by anything, by worldly measures as well as by natural phenomena, for what has emerged from God's strength asserts itself against the world and also against nature, for God is lord over everything, He alone determines the beginning and also the end, He determines the coming into being as well as the passing away, and therefore that which has Him as its origin cannot perish, just as He also protects all who are mediators of His word, who receive it and pass it on to their fellow human beings, as is His purpose. For people shall be instructed by God's will, they shall hear His word in order to recognize and learn to love God and to live according to His word in order to unite with God through it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine spark .... love .... flames ....

B.D. 3332 from November 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The divine spark in the human being can become an enormous flame and then it consumes everything that comes into contact with it ...., i.e., the flame of love constantly needs new nourishment, it draws everything into its sphere; it ignites and radiates warmth, it purifies and crystallizes what is impure, it enlivens and awakens, it illuminates and radiates everything and does not rest until that which is seized by it becomes a flame like it. And then the human being can leave the earth, for then he will have reached his aim, he will have joined the eternal deity, Which is pure love in Itself. The divine spark of love in the human being has made contact with God, Who is love Himself .... Yet it usually takes a long earthly life in order to completely change into love .... the fire of love is usually not ignited in the human being, the spark glows but it does not have the strength to take hold and let the flame flare up brightly. And therefore it has to be continuously stoked so that the spark will not go out, and it has to be nourished .... love in the human being has to be stimulated to activity .... A fellow human being's extremely strong will must take possession of his soul, his love must be so strong that he transfers it to it, and thereby the spark will also be kindled into strong embers of love, so that both flames can merge and now shine brightly .... Once this flame has been kindled it can never go out, instead it will become ever brighter and more radiant because it will always find nourishment .... souls in need who are now seized and consumed by the flame of love. For a loving person will not leave those souls in need, and every assistance is a renewed ignition of the divine spark, the flame in the heart will become ever greater and soon there will be nothing left in the human being's surroundings which will not fall prey to the flame. Yet the flame of love has a beneficent effect, it is gentle yet full of ardour, it will not hurt or harm anyone but it will delight, awaken and mature, but it will not leave anyone out either, for the flames of love spread very quickly once they have been kindled ....

The divine spark in man cannot be extinguished, but it can be buried if it is not yet big enough .... Then it will continue to glow under the cover of unkindness, but it is too weak to break through. If, however, a small flame of love comes from outside, then the divine spark breaks through and connects with the flame of love, and the flame is enough to consume what is still a shell, a cinder that prevents a bright fire. For the divine spark in the human being always drives him to love activity from within. The human being's will can therefore kindle the spark into the strongest flame, and this flame always takes the direction towards God, towards the exit of love and light. For God's love is an eternal fire which blazes in brightest embers and wants to absorb everything .... every little flame which has united with the eternal fire has reached its aim .... But countless sparks of divine love are still wandering around, they glow unceasingly but find no nourishment to ignite and blaze brightly .... Their surroundings are poor in light and love, rarely does a tiny flame twitch through the night; but where it lights up, the divine spark has broken through, and the tiny flame promises to become a bright flame, for it cannot be extinguished because the flame of love penetrates every obstacle, consumes it and its flame constantly increases. Yet the divine spark is a part of God, the flame of love is an emanation of eternal love, and therefore it can never be completely extinguished, it can only shine sparsely and sporadically where the human being's will keeps itself away from every activity of love, where he does not let the divine spark in him become a flame through active neighbourly love. And that is why humanity walks along in the darkness of night, and its little flames only shine sparsely now and then. And yet the night can be illuminated as bright as day where, through industrious activity of love, little flame after little flame is ignited, which come together, become a great flame and shine in fullest luminosity .... all of which strive heavenwards towards the great light, the eternal flame, with which they seek to merge in order to be close to the primal light, the eternal love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritualization of the substances of the body ....

B.D. 3333 from November 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The body should help the soul to spiritual maturity by giving itself up, by suppressing every desire and only allowing the soul's desire to come into its own, which, if the body releases it, completely surrenders to the spirit within itself, thus giving in to its desire and its urge. The more the body joins the soul's desire the more the soul's material external form spiritualizes itself, and then it no longer needs to cover such a long earthly path, whereas a completely materially attuned body still needs a long time after its physical death before it has overcome its desire. The spiritual substances of the outer forms of those souls are, as it were, refined, they are no longer so grossly material, although they are still earthly matter. The soul drags him over into the realm of the spirit to which it has granted all dominion over itself, and the body follows it willingly, it renounces everything that otherwise seemed desirable to it, it is completely without resistance and therefore also no longer turned towards the world. And a person will mature faster if body and soul are subject to the spirit within. The latter now rules them in love and wisdom .... what he demands the soul and the body carries out, and this contributes to spiritual progress. For the soul will be able to hear the voice of the spirit because the body is ready at the same time by keeping every disturbance away from the soul, by putting itself into the state that the voice of the spirit expresses itself. For the body must completely detach itself from the world, it must close its bodily ear and leave the listening to the soul so that it will then convey it to it. The less the soul is hindered by the body, the more audibly the voice of the spirit sounds to it. But the body also has great success. It overcomes matter much more easily, it is, so to speak, strengthened by the food which the soul receives, it spiritualizes itself more and more, and the soul takes spiritual substances of the body into itself when it leaves the world. The earthly material components of the body will not have to go through such a long process of maturing, sometimes they will even be admitted to the formation of a new human soul where they can completely spiritualize themselves. Where soul and body push towards the spirit, such spiritualization is guaranteed if God's eternal order is also paused in the upward development of the spirit. However, the course of ascent development can be considerably shortened when the spiritual's resistance is broken, i.e. when the spiritual itself gives up all resistance, which is always the case, when the body detaches itself from everything it otherwise strives for, when it facilitates the soul's spiritual striving by joining it and seeking to break every earthly fetter through conscious devotion and submission to the spirit within itself, which now draws soul and body to itself, and a rapid ascent development of both is now the result ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The cause of hard living conditions ....

B.D. 3334 from November 18th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You cannot expect changes for the better in your living conditions as long as you don’t change your will as well as your conduct in life yourselves. Your perception of the purpose of your earthly life is completely wrong and you would never even think about it if you were given a carefree life of peaceful monotony or worldly pleasure. But you have to become aware of your true task on earth, and therefore you will be motivated by difficult conditions in life to think about it because only then can the knowing beings, who are responsible for your spiritual care, mentally suggest an answer to you. And these difficult conditions shall worsen if they don’t succeed in stimulating your thinking because in that case you won’t live consciously, i.e. you won’t strive for spiritual development, which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life. And therefore you shall have to endure worldly hard times and should not expect improvements as long as you don’t improve yourselves, i.e. as long as you don’t accept divine will as your guiding principle of conduct. Because God can only educate you such that your will becomes active by itself and you would only need a small amount of suffering if you thought of your own accord and shaped your life in accordance with its purpose. And you continue to be burdened by very hard conditions because you are not making any preparations for change.

The earth will see much suffering; hopelessness and anguish shall tire and exhaust the people, and yet they could provide themselves with an easier earthly life if they only recognised their suffering as a caution from God, who warns them in that manner to change their lives for their own sake. Because soul and body shall die on the path they are walking. God wants to save the soul and therefore puts the body under pressure, He wants to show you the right way if only you were willing to listen to Him, when you, because of a harder life, turn your thoughts to Him, when you question yourselves about the meaning and purpose of your existence and wish for a mental response ....

And if you listen to Him, if you heed His warnings and live accordingly, then He shall relieve you of your difficult living conditions .... He shall save you from all evil, spiritually as well as earthly, because He only asks you to consider Him and carry out your true purpose in life .... to strive for progress and not just concern yourselves with earthly life .... Then He shall take your worries from you where it benefits your soul, because God does not want you to suffer if you consider your spiritual well-being first. He must save you from eternal destruction by all means which, however, you shall suffer if you live a carefree earthly life and achieve worldly fulfilment .... then your soul will be lost and you won’t achieve your goal on earth, you won’t strive upwards and therefore will have lived your life in vain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Guilt of sin .... forgiveness .... redemption .... cross of Christ ....

B.D. 3335 from November 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The graces of the work of redemption extend to all people who have faith in Jesus Christ. These are therefore also assured of the forgiveness of their sins as soon as they recognize them, repent and ask for forgiveness. For those who believe in Jesus Christ also know that they are sinful, otherwise they would not acknowledge His work of redemption. Consequently, they stand under the cross of Christ, they feel complicit in the suffering and death which Jesus took upon Himself, and they humbly bow before Him to ask for forgiveness of their guilt. But these people are constantly striving for their soul's maturity, and thus they will also take refuge under Christ's cross again and again if they are exposed to temptations in the battle of life or even succumb to them from time to time. For they know that they are weak and that therefore the danger of sinning is immense if they don't constantly pray for strength and call upon Jesus Christ to strengthen their will. They know that they can come to Him at any time; they also know that God is long-suffering and merciful, that He knows about His children's weaknesses and that He is always willing to forgive them if they have sinned and repentantly approach the cross of Christ. For the work of redemption was accomplished for all people and for all times .... His graces will always be effective on those who believe in Jesus Christ, and all guilt will be cast upon Him who took it upon Himself and atoned for it through the death of the cross. The work of mercy is so great that people are not able to grasp it .... Yet only those who unite with Him through faith can ever participate in it. And this is why the hardship on earth is overwhelming, indeed often unbearable, because humanity has lost this faith, because it does not flee to Him with its guilt of sin but is burdened itself and now also has to bear the burden. Their guilt cannot be paid off, it constantly grows and lies all the heavier on people who lack all faith in Jesus Christ. And it will become so great that the guilt will crush people, that they will collapse under it and no longer be able to rise, for they do not seek forgiveness of their guilt, and God's justice cannot redeem them if they do not desire His grace and accept to be redeemed from their guilt. A human being sacrificed Himself in supreme love and through His death offered an atonement to God which is sufficient for eternities that sinners find forgiveness before God for the sake of this sacrifice .... for He was the purest being, He was without any guilt, and therefore His sacrifice outweighed the sins of the whole of humanity. Yet His sacrifice of atonement has to be acknowledged by people, they have to be willing to accept the grace thereby gained or they will eternally be unable to be released from their guilt. Sin drags people down, Christ's death raises them up again .... Sin is the death of the soul, but under the cross of Christ it comes to life again .... Every person is sinful as long as he still walks on earth; but in faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption he finds forgiveness, he finds eternal life, which would be lost to him through sin. The forgiveness of the guilt of sin is therefore of utmost importance, it can only take place through Jesus Christ, it cannot be replaced by anything else, and therefore every person who lacks faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will have to languish in sin. For even if he lives a life of strict self-restraint and purity on earth, the sin of his former rebellion against God, which was the reason for his life on earth in the first place, will still remain with him .... For this sin caused him to have a weakened will which is unable to offer resistance against the earthly temptations and temptations which make him sinful. For Jesus Christ offered His sacrifice in recognition of the profound hardship, in recognition of the weakness of will in which humanity finds itself due to its former sin .... And in order to redeem them from this He gave His life on the cross .... for He was full of love, and love seeks to bring help, love will always be redemptively active ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual arrogance .... humility - grace ....

B.D. 3336 from November 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Spiritual arrogance prevents people from recognizing the truth, for the truth is given by God to those who think themselves small and lowly, who stand in deepest humility and can therefore be appreciated by His grace. However, as soon as a person believes himself to be knowledgeable without having received the instruction from God Himself, he exalts himself, for the knowledge of man is small .... Even if he receives the pure truth in school he will only recognize it as truth if God Himself can work in him through His spirit. But God's spirit only works in the humble person who asks for the truth because he feels poor in it .... But anyone who believes himself to be knowledgeable does not ask for it, and anyone who believes himself to possess the truth does not strive for it. And this spiritual arrogance is a great obstacle for him, for he will not be able to recognize the truth if it is offered to him. But people who believe themselves to be called as proclaimers of the divine word are mostly spiritually arrogant. For they have acquired knowledge in a scholastic way by using their intellect, and they now believe that they are able to instruct their fellow human beings according to this knowledge. They feel spiritually superior to them and have often not yet established the bond with God which guarantees them right knowledge, i.e. truthful knowledge. Consequently, they are not taught by God and therefore not called by Him to the mission they have set for themselves. But if a true servant of God gets in their way, a person who is taught by God and called by Him to work for Him, then he denies him any authorization, which he, however, claims for himself. He does not want to give away the intellectual wealth he has acquired through study, but this intellectual wealth makes him spiritually arrogant, he himself claims an office which must be offered to him by God if he is to be entitled to administer this office. He lacks the inner humility which he receives from spiritual activity, for only through the latter does the knowledge he has received in school become comprehensible to him, it only becomes true knowledge as soon as he recognizes it as truth. The humble person who feels poor in spirit need not fear that he will walk in error, for the spirit teaches him because it can become effective in him. For God gives His grace to the humble .... He favours him with rich knowledge, He makes him able to recognize the truth, He makes him His servant, His representative on earth .... thus He appoints him to work for Him. But the knowledge of the spiritually arrogant person will never fully satisfy his fellow human being .... it is offered just as it was offered to him .... scholastically and intellectually thought through but not received from the heart through the working of the spirit in the human being. And therefore it cannot come alive either, it cannot awaken to life, but it is received as a word which only sets the intellect but not the heart into activity .... The spiritually arrogant person does not speak to the human being's heart, and therefore he will not have the success that a right servant of God has .... a person who is deeply humble and asks God for His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Exhortation to work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3337 from November 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You should never tire of working for My kingdom, for time is pressing and much work shall still be done before the end comes. And you shall be active supports for Me on earth, you shall prepare the ground for Me and not leave any opportunity unused where you can supply the field with good seed. Thus you should speak wherever you find an open ear .... For My sheep are also in great distress because they are no longer able to recognize Me in the hustle and bustle of the world, in the chaos, misery and affliction. And I will make Myself known to them, I will bring Myself close to them, and you shall be the mediators. You must not be afraid to speak of My working so that they will also receive information about how I consider My own if they join Me and enter into contact with Me. They shall be strengthened in their faith, they shall lose all doubt about My love and justice, they shall always and everywhere recognize My hand in every event, and they shall know that nothing can happen without My will, that therefore even evil is permitted by Me because I associate it with a purpose which is beneficial for the soul if the wrong human will accomplishes something which contradicts My commandments. You shall enlighten people about their purpose of earthly life, about their task on earth, about their wrong way of life and its consequences. You shall reproach them with what I have to say to them, for I make use of you because they would not be able to bear it if I spoke to them Myself. You shall admonish and warn those who act against My will, and you shall strengthen and comfort those who want to belong to Me and threaten to become weak in the adversity of the time. I reveal Myself to you in order to restore people's faith that I dwell amongst them, in order to remind them of My promises which will truly come true because My word has to come true .... Yet even My own become weak and fickle and seek Me in the distance, Who is close to them. And therefore I bring you together with them so that they hear My voice through you, so that I can also speak to them and they hear Me, so that they recognize in Me their father Who loves His children, so that they see the good shepherd in Me Who does not leave His sheep without care .... And so you shall influence all according to their will, their state of maturity and their love .... You shall always and everywhere proclaim My word which you receive from Me, which demonstrates My love for you and testifies to My omnipotence and wisdom. You shall speak in My stead, for they need My word which I now want to convey to them through you. And if you give in to your heart's urging, if you speak where you feel compelled, if you don't shy away from openly informing them of My working, you will be successful, for My blessing rests on you and your work .... You will not preach to deaf ears but people will listen to you and take the words to heart .... and help will be brought to the souls in their spiritual hardship ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Love work .... beginning redemption ....

B.D. 3338 from November 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Every human being should contribute his share to salvation, and he can also do so if only he gives an example of a life of love. For by doing so he also encourages his fellow human beings to live a life of love as soon as love is shown to him at all times. Only love is redeeming, and only then can humanity be released from its spiritual and earthly distress if it decides to live a life of love. This will loosen the soul's cover, and at the same time the suffering on earth, which is often a means to stimulate the human being into a life of love, can also be alleviated. But people do not heed admonitions and warnings, they continue to remain unkind, their thoughts and actions are far removed from love, and thus they create an unbearable fate for themselves on earth, they are themselves the cause of suffering and misery directly through their unkindness and indirectly that they need a sharp antidote in order to change. But if the individual human being endeavours to live a life of love he will banish suffering for himself and his surroundings, for God will reduce it because He will come ever closer to him to the same extent as the human being practices love, because He will now keep suffering away from him or help him to bear it if it is necessary for the sake of his fellow human beings' souls. And every work of love attracts God, with every work of love the human being creates a weapon against suffering, he can now easily overcome it and thus increasingly recognizes the power of love. But above all, a life of love loosens the cover which still surrounds the soul .... And this is incipient redemption .... it makes itself able to receive God's radiation, His spirit, it gives life to the spirit within itself, the cover is broken which prevented a rapprochement between spirit and soul .... If a person lives a life of love for his fellow human beings, then the spiritual spark in him can connect with God's emanation, and where this can work, the spiritual spark in the soul of his fellow human being will also try to break through his cover by urging the person to do good works and trying to make himself heard .... Thus a good example will always inspire imitation, for this is the strength of love, the strength of the spirit which is awakened through love and which is constantly active and also seeks to make contact with the spiritual spark in the fellow human being. For the spiritual spark in the human being is part of God, and everything divine strives towards each other; but where the divine breaks through in the human being, there is also redemption .... The earth-bound soul becomes free, it casts off all shackles and comes closer to its original state again, the state of complete freedom .... And only love can bring this about .... Therefore, every human being should only practice love, to bless himself and his neighbour .... He should set a good example and know that he will not only break the soul's bonds but also reduce earthly suffering, but that increasing unkindness also means an increase in earthly suffering and that humanity will fall into an increasingly dark spiritual state from which nothing but love can redeem it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual power .... bread of heaven .... hunger ....

B.D. 3339 from November 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The spiritual food must be taken in by a hungry heart or it will remain ineffective. God offers nourishment to the soul, but just as the body craves earthly food, the soul must also crave heavenly food, and the degree of craving also determines the degree of effect. A hungry soul is the right receptacle for spiritual food, it will process the food from the heavens and also feel what strength and power flows towards it with the heavenly food. It will not need to starve if it only asks for it; it will also not need to restrict itself because the soul will never be surfeited with spiritual food if it fully opens itself to take spiritual food and drink. But then the body no longer seeks earthly pleasures, its desire for them diminishes the more the soul strengthens itself at the source of eternal life. For now earthly life no longer means so much to the human being that he constantly wants to provide the body with earthly pleasures. His thoughts and aspirations are the spiritual realm, spiritual nourishment and strengthening of the soul. And such a desiring person will be well provided for spiritually and also physically, for he will want for nothing because he puts the salvation of his soul before the well-being of the body and does not allow himself to be satisfied with earthly nourishment, which the body certainly needs but which contributes very little to the maturing of the soul. But if the human being desires spiritual nourishment, the physical nourishment will not be without influence on the soul's development, for then it will draw spiritual substances from everything the body consumes, which will join it and increase its spiritual strength .... Spiritual food is offered to people by God Himself directly or through His heavenly servants who are in full possession of spiritual strength and continuously distribute food and drink to those who are in need and joyfully receive their gift. Anyone who hungers and thirsts will not reject the bread of heaven either, he desires it with all his senses, for he believes that he will pine away if he is not fed, and therefore he will not indifferently receive the delicious gift which is offered to him from above .... He will ask and give thanks for every gift and never ever pass by the lord's table, for he is offered a supper which seems more delicious to him than all the goods and pleasures of the world. And he is always invited to partake, the bread of heaven is always offered to him through divine love if he has a desire for it. And anyone who has once tasted the heavenly food will not want to miss it again, for it is exceedingly delicious and places the soul into a state of maturity, for it makes it capable of working for the spiritual kingdom .... Heavenly food gives strength and endurance, courage and determination .... The human being will become strong in faith, diligent in loving activity, fearless in confessing his faith before the world and therefore active for the kingdom of God .... For all weakness will fall away from him if he accepts spiritual food which God Himself prepares for him and offers him in His love .... the bread of heaven which touches the human soul extremely effectively .... His word, which is supplied as spiritual nourishment to those who desire it and accept it with a longing heart from His hand, which is always willing to give ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Shortening the end time ....

B.D. 3340 from November 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Great is the number of those who oppose Me, who have no spiritual connection, i.e. who only move their thoughts in earthly orbits and therefore don't listen to the messengers of heaven so that their thoughts could be directed towards the eternal aim, and these offer a welcome field of attack for My adversary .... For they give ear to the whisperings of his powers. And thus he wins them over for his camp and appoints them to fight against Me. I will still take care of them until they proclaim profound enmity to Me. Where I still know a weak soul I give it the opportunity to come to knowledge, and I don't cease to woo these souls, I bring My word close to it, I let My messengers step into its path, and I use every opportunity as soon as it is not completely averse to Me to change its thinking. But such souls are in the majority and they will dwell and rage under the influence of My adversary to the horror of My children. And the number increases daily, for the undecided also still fall away, who are not yet in the depth of faith and who live lukewarm and sluggishly, even though they are still devoted to Me according to the word, yet in their heart they are still far from Me and therefore cannot resist the temptations either. The world will tempt them more than their happiness, and thus they surrender Me when they are confronted with the decision. And it is only a small group who remain faithful to Me until the end. For their sake I will shorten the time, for even if the tribulation becomes increasingly stronger it will not move any of My adversaries to give up their enmity against Me and come into My camp. And therefore the time shall be shortened for My Own sake so that they will not become weak and fall prey to the enemy of the souls, so that their suffering will not last longer than is necessary for the completion of the last event on this earth. And I will stand by them in the great adversity and strengthen them through My presence, I will dwell amongst them visibly and invisibly, and they will feel My nearness and remain strong until I come and deliver them from their adversity. And then it will be the end for every creature, for only My own will be preserved, while everything else will perish, i.e. be banished anew in the creations of the new earth for the purpose of their spiritual ascent, so that even that which has apostatized to Me will find its way to Me, albeit after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly fulfilment of duty .... spiritual work ....

B.D. 3341 from November 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Nothing should stop you from striving for perfection, and therefore you should not want to achieve earthly aims but only think of your souls and your earthly task, which alone is important since it shall earn you life in eternity. Therefore, if the world approaches you with its demands, then ask God for the strength to enable you to fulfil what is earthly demanded of you, yet know that God likewise makes demands of you and that their fulfilment is far more important, because earthly life was only given to you for the purpose that you strive upwards, that you become perfect and that you must not neglect this task if earthly life is to bring you success for your soul. The human being should never shirk his duties which earthly life imposes on him, for he should use his vitality in helpful neighbourly love; he should be constantly active, for only constant activity contributes towards the redemption of that which is still bound and wants to serve. But if he puts the work for his soul before all earthly work he will not do wrong, on the contrary, he will contribute to the redemption of the bound to a greater extent, and spiritual activity outweighs earthly activity many times over. Anyone who always strives to walk the right path on earth, who only wants to think and act in accordance with God's will, will always place his strength at the service of his neighbour, and what appears to be most important to him he will do first .... If spiritual work seems to him to be unpostponable because he recognizes the hardship on earth, he should give in to his heart's urge and be spiritually active. For the will to work for the kingdom of God also gives him an intensified feeling for what is necessary, and the soul's work should always be placed before all other work, after all, it is the actual purpose of earthly life. But as long as the human being walks along without realization, earthly fulfilment of duty is advisable and in accordance with divine order. But once the meaning and purpose of earthly life has become clear to him, earthly life recedes and spiritual life has priority, because this is imperishable and understandably work for eternity is more important than activity that only brings earthly success. The more mature the human being is, the easier it is for him to separate himself from earth and its goods, the less he demands worldly pleasures, and thus he must also then put worldly demands on hold, i.e. only comply with them as far as is absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, he should practice the activity of love, he should bring love to its highest development and thus let every earthly activity become an activity of love at the same time, so that he now fulfils both .... that he fulfils his duty on earth and yet strives for perfection. And he should use his strength as a labourer for the kingdom of God .... he should set himself an aim by trying to lead erring souls to God, he should help them to realize and thus be spiritually active .... then he will have double success .... he will help himself and his fellow human beings to maturity of soul and use his vitality for redemptive activity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of love .... power of the divine word .... offering the divine word with or without love .... desire ....

B.D. 3342 from November 23rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Only someone who directly receives strength, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, can give strength, for the giving of strength is only a consequence of receiving, but this in turn is the effect of a life of love. A work of love can therefore also donate strength because God Himself expresses Himself in loving activity, thus a transfer of strength also takes place. This is to be understood in such a way that only good deeds have a beneficial effect, even if this is not immediately recognized, but that a person who is intrinsically unloving and whose actions are not based on love can never ever be a blessing. He can indeed seemingly have great strength at his disposal but this is only increased vitality which flows to him from God's adversary because he is in bondage to him, but it is not divine strength which enlivens, spiritually promotes and leads upwards. Only God supplies this strength to people, and this strength can therefore only be gained through loving activity, through a direct connection with God. Likewise, spiritual strength can only be transmitted by people who are capable and willing to love, because only such people are recipients of strength. And it follows that the strength of the divine word only becomes effective when it is offered to people in love, otherwise it remains a dead word. It is different, however, when a loving person desires the word of God from the bottom of his heart and turns to God for the supply of truth and strength from God. Then the transmitter of the word can be a silent instrument of God, then God Himself conveys His word through it to the desiring person and it will be received by him as a source of strength. For then it is God Himself Who distributes His gift, as He can also convey it to the human being through the scriptures which, however, only come alive when a loving, truth-desiring person asks God for it. The receiver and the giver must be in love if the power of the word is to become effective ....

A gift which is offered without love is only a form which is not enlivened by the spirit, it is something dead which understandably cannot awaken to life and also does not generate counter-love. Because the human being cannot receive strength through his lack of love he is also incapable of giving it away, and thus the state of powerlessness is everywhere where love is not cultivated. But lack of strength is also darkness .... Light is missing where there is no transmission of strength through love activity. And light is knowledge .... Therefore the state of lovelessness must at the same time be a state of ignorance, a lack of knowledge which corresponds to truth. And therefore unkindness has also expelled the truth, and it, in turn, can only be regained through loving activity .... But truth is the pure word of God which is conveyed to the person who is active in love, and he will also be permeated by strength and be able to distribute light and strength again. And if love for his neighbour impels the person to spread the word of God, he will also be able to present it vividly, and then it will also awaken his fellow human being to life, for this is the strength of the divine word, that it will not leave an impression if it offers love. And that is why God's servant himself must stand in love if he wants to be successful in the vineyard of the lord. He must recognize the spiritual hardship on earth and want to help people, then he will receive the strength to shape His words such that they are understandable and acceptable to people. Then the inherent strength of the divine word will flow into the listener, it will increase his willingness to receive, his understanding and again his activity of love .... he follows the divine word and makes considerable spiritual progress .... And this is achieved by love alone .... But without love every work is unsuccessful for its spiritual ascent development. And that is why so much work on earth is in vain. For even those who feel called do not recognize the necessity of loving activity and the powerlessness of the word which is offered without love. And this is why God Himself calls His servants on earth to whom He repeatedly demonstrates the strength of love, which results in inconceivable blessings and therefore may never be switched off if the human being tries to achieve spiritual success, for only love redeems, and only love leads to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Working together in love in the end time ....

B.D. 3343 from November 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

My own will have to unite closely if they don't want to become weak and discouraged in the last days. They must lift each other up and encourage each other, they must unitedly appeal for My help and faithfully expect it, they must make use of every opportunity to listen to My word, to practice love and to hold an inner dialogue with Me, so that they will always be able to go about their daily work strengthened and meet the demands of the world, insofar as they cannot be circumvented. For the time will be hard for everyone, and anyone who does not draw strength from Me, who does not let the strength of My word take effect on him, will find it unbearable and push him to the ground. But I always have the giver of strength ready for My own .... My word, which is offered to you from the heavens .... Whoever has this will also be able to endure this time, he will not pay attention to the tribulation and will not feel the hardship so tangibly, he will always be led out again, for I Myself will spread My hands over him so that no harm will come to him .... I Myself will lead him by the hand so that his foot will not stumble, and I Myself will lift him up and comfort him with My word if he is despondent and his heart wants to tremble. And therefore My word will be the only source of strength, and you must come together for My word, you must let Me speak to you at all times, in adversity and tribulation, in anguish and distress, you must listen to My voice and do what I ask of you .... Always and constantly give love, for hardship can only be alleviated through loving actions. For then you will draw Me to yourselves and with Me you will overcome everything .... And if you also oppose your enemies with love you will also be able to achieve spiritual success, for where you give love you win the hearts and thus weaken the adversary's power. And you will have many opportunities to do so because adversity puts all people in a position to ask for help. Then you will have to prove yourselves, you will have to set a good example for each other and practice love practically, and I will give you the opportunity to be helpfully active so that you spur on your fellow human beings and educate them to love. And every circle shall know that it is protected by Me, which unites in spiritual striving, which is willing to serve Me and eagerly accepts My word .... I will always be in the midst of people who have Me as their aim, I will obviously come to their aid in adversity, I will lead the individuals to each other so that they can serve Me together, I will grant them all protection so that they will never need to fear, for the adversity will never be greater than He Who lets it come upon humanity .... Anyone who acknowledges Me as lord and creator of heaven and earth need only lift his thoughts to Me with faith and trust and I will not disappoint him .... His faith is also a guarantee for My help, his faith calls for My presence and his faith reveals My fatherly love .... he will not call upon Me in vain, he will find an answer in every adversity .... And therefore approach the coming time undaunted, let Me rule and don't be afraid, for My love and omnipotence will end the time and lead you, My faithful, through to eternal bliss, and you will thank Me and praise Me that you were allowed to live through this time of grace, for it will bring increased blessings to those who remain faithful to Me .... a paradise on earth and a blissful life one day in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fullness of divine grace in the end time ....

B.D. 3344 from November 24th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The fullness of divine grace will flow to people in the last days if they are in particular need of it. There is nothing insurmountable for the human being if he avails himself of divine grace, and this grace will not be withheld from anyone who requests it in prayer, who calls upon God for help. And it will only depend on whether the human being opens himself to the influx of divine grace, whether he sends a requesting thought to God or completely rejects Him .... and thereby closes himself off to every gift of grace. If he only enters into contact with God through his will turned towards Him, he will also be able to dispose of grace because he will then be entitled to it without measure. But if he stands apart from God, then God's grace cannot be given to him either, because this requires the will of the human being, the acknowledgement of God through prayer. Even a thought turned towards God is enough for Him to lovingly draw close to the human being and bestow His gift of grace upon him .... but this can never be offered to a person who is hostile towards God, because then God's grace would be a means of coercion for that person's transformation. Although grace is always an undeserved means of help, a gift which is given to the human being through God's love, this gift nevertheless requires the human being's will to accept a gift, and God demands this will in order not to make him unfree. In the last days people will be able to avail themselves of an abundance of grace, for the greater the hardship the more lovingly God will consider those who approach Him in supplication, and He will also grant grace to those who are still hardened in spirit. But they can only become effective if the human being himself is willing to accept them. And therefore only the small circle of those who are faithful to God and carry Him in their hearts will recognize the fullness of grace. These will receive an exceedingly rich reward because they ask and wait for their request to be fulfilled .... because they bring all hardship before Him and ask for strength for their earthly path of life. Their pleas will not go unheard .... They will be helped in every adversity, in all situations and at the right time .... And this is grace, that God obviously helps His own, that He strengthens and comforts them, that He always lets them find a way out of earthly adversity, that He takes care of their physical and spiritual needs and that He sends them His word .... He will obviously work and speak to people through His instruments so that they will become powerful and courageous and withstand all temptations. He will bring people together that they may stand by one another and strengthen one another .... And all this is grace, they are aids which are to bring them spiritual maturity and make the difficult time before the end bearable. Yet anyone who does not desire them has no share in the bestowal of grace either, for the flow of divine love only takes hold of those who turn to Him, but the others are outside the circuit of God's love, and this through their own fault. For God does not reject anyone who approaches Him, He does not withdraw from anyone who acknowledges Him, He constantly distributes His gift of grace to anyone who wants to receive it. But he who rejects it will go away empty-handed and will have to pay bitterly for this at the end of his day. On the day of judgment he will fall prey to destruction, from which divine grace can save him if he accepts and uses it in the knowledge that it alone can save him from eternal ruin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Multiple walk through creation .... God's plan of salvation .... recognition in the kingdom of light ....

B.D. 3345 from November 25th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The spiritual had a long way to go before it was admitted to the last test of life, to embodiment as a human being. It had to go through many deformations, it had to submit to divine will, it was deprived of its freedom, and thus forced, so to speak, it covers this earthly path, but with the final aim that it becomes finally free again. The embodiment as a human being is to be the last test in which the being has to prove itself in order to attain final freedom. That which it did in the state of compulsion .... serve .... it should now do of its own free will, uninfluenced, only pointed out .... it should be active in service of its own accord, stimulated by love. If the being is now willing to walk this serving path in love, it can overcome its last form in a short time, and it can enter the spheres of light where it can again work freely and unhindered in bliss. This is the aim and purpose of the change through creation .... Since the aim requires the being's free will, the being can understandably also fail if it does not use its free will properly .... it cannot reach the aim but take a wrong path which leads far away from the aim. Then one walk through creation is not enough but it has to cover this path again in order to reach the aim, sometimes even several times, until it has finally regained its freedom. And every walk through creation requires new possibilities to mature, again and again other conditions are set under which the being covers the course of development to the height. And this is the eternal plan of salvation, which only becomes comprehensible to people when they know about the primordial beginning and final aim of the spiritual through the awakening of their spirit. Only then will they be able to grasp God's infinite love and mercy, His greatness and omnipotence and His exceeding wisdom. But they will only recognize God in the kingdom of light when all veils will fall from their eyes and they will look back on the course they have travelled on earth .... when they know about the eternal creator's infinite loving care for His living creations, about their tenacity in the unredeemed state and the glories of the spiritual kingdom .... Everything that is only has the purpose of returning the spiritual to Him, which was once lost to Him through the will of the adversary, but to whom He likewise gave full freedom .... The mature spiritual substance knows about its shortcomings and its distance from God beforehand and is eternally grateful and devoted to God that He did not leave it in this state but tried to achieve its reclamation by all means; it knows about its own opposition and about God's overwhelming love, and it now almost perishes in love for Him Who saved it from the spiritual abyss. And even if the earthly path lasted infinite times, even if it brought the being immeasurable agonies, the being itself thanks its creator that He allowed it to take this path, that He gave it the opportunity to reach the final aim and to attain the vision of God. For this bliss outweighs everything the being has suffered in its opposition .... And therefore every new creation is a proof of God's love Who wants to guide the spiritual being, which does not yet recognize Him, into knowledge in order to make it blissfully happy for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Warning of the end .... spiritual decline ....

B.D. 3346 from November 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Humanity is unmistakably heading towards spiritual decline, for it is only pursuing an earthly aim .... the improvement of physical life, earthly circumstances and the increase of earthly possessions. But all this is contrary to the actual purpose, for the human being's purpose is to overcome earthly desires and only strive towards spiritual aims, thus to develop spiritually upwards. But if the spiritual decline is obviously recognizable, the last means must still be used to stop it or to hold individual people back from it. And therefore the earth experiences an excessive amount of suffering from which people should derive their benefit .... to refrain from earthly desires and cravings and instead strive spiritually. As soon as suffering fulfils this purpose it has not been imposed on people in vain, and the blessing of suffering cannot be denied. For only now does the human being pursue his aim, and only now does the soul mature, i.e., it seeks union with God and shapes itself according to His will .... Yet only a small part of humanity will consciously strive for this union with God and develop upwards despite spiritual decline. The majority of people, however, are not open-minded, and they also reject every instruction as to how they can reach the aim and what aim is set for the individual. But God still gives him the opportunity to change until the last end, and He often enough shows him the transience of earthly possessions, so that the thinking person now lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom and can also receive an answer from it. And many people will stand apart from their possessions and learn to value earthly goods less, and every detachment from them chains them more to the spiritual kingdom, which now begins to offer them a substitute as soon as they are given meagrely by fate and their earthly wealth falls prey to destruction. Then a new phase of earthly life also begins for the human being .... he has reached the crossroads and has decided on the right direction, he strives towards truth and with it towards the eternal deity, Which now confronts him everywhere, even if previously still unrecognized. Then his soul will be saved from spiritual downfall, for every striving towards God will be successful and protect the human being from spiritual decay, and the end will not take him unawares ....

(26.11.1944) For the end is imminent .... And therefore it is far more important to make provisions for his soul than to want to shape earthly life in his favour. Earthly life should only be used for spiritual striving, for working on one's soul, spiritual relationships should be cultivated, spiritual conversations should be held and the hardship of erring souls should be remembered, everyone should try to change himself into love and thus live as if every day were the last. The connection with the spiritual world should be maintained, i.e. thoughts should always be directed into the spiritual kingdom in a searching and questioning way, from where the answer will also be mentally conveyed to him .... All precautions should be taken for a speedy passing away, however, only with regard to the spiritual afterlife, but not for the world, for it will not exist much longer and any concern for the body's well-being or for earthly possessions is useless .... For it is coming to an end .... Whether the end is to be expected quickly or less quickly is irrelevant, for every day is important and therefore should not be taken lightly, no-one should put off until tomorrow what he can already do today, for he does not know whether he will still experience the end which is imminent. And therefore God admonishes and warns you long beforehand so that the end does not take you by surprise, so that you are not completely unprepared for it and have to fear it. For God wants to save you, He wants to protect you from another earthly life, He wants to help you so that you will not belong to those who will be condemned in the end, who will become completely unkind and therefore belong to satan. For this reason He sends His messengers to you beforehand and informs you of what awaits you; He does not leave you unwarned, He speaks to you through His messengers again and again and admonishes you to remember your soul, He shows you how transient earthly possessions are and thereby helps you to detach yourselves from matter. He brings His word close to you and thereby enlightens you about sin and its consequences, about the consequences of wrong will and a life without love .... But He also informs you of the blessing of a rightly used will, of your final aim and the joys of eternal life .... He wants to draw you over into the spiritual kingdom where there is light and bliss and therefore imparts the knowledge to you through His word. But it is up to you whether you evaluate His loving care for you and change yourselves into love .... Yet the end will come irrevocably, and blessed is he who prepares himself, who leaves the world and only strives to attain the spiritual kingdom .... For he will not need to fear the end because he will continue his life in eternity in light and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Surrender to God .... submission of the will ....

B.D. 3347 from November 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The more devotedly you submit yourselves to God's will the clearer you will also recognize His will, for He places the knowledge of it into your heart. Whatever you want, whatever you feel impelled to do, is also His will, and therefore your life will now also be peaceful because you no longer doubt or hesitate to do something but confidently tackle everything, for God's will is active in you and this will always express itself in serenity and certainty. Devotion to God is therefore a prerequisite for a peaceful way of life, for an earthly life which is lived in mental balance, in contentment and happy tranquillity, for then God will direct this life, He will guide the human being and He will reward devotion to Him with His caring love which will always surround the earthly child. Anyone who has sacrificed his will to God also accepts everything as God's mission, he does not rebel because he is firmly convinced that it is good the way God determines it, because he is of the same will and no longer resists divine will. And this concordance of his will with divine will is already strength-giving on earth, for the human being consciously opens himself to His emanation of love, which will always make him happy when the human being gives himself to God in prayer. Then God Himself can work in the human being, His will can drive the human being's will to spiritual work. And everything the human being does is God's working in the human being, Who can therefore become effective in him because the human will no longer opposes Him. And then the human being is relieved of all responsibility, he has to be good, he has to develop himself upwards, he has to be able to record spiritual successes, also towards his fellow human beings, because all his wanting, thinking and acting corresponds to God's will, because he has given his will to Him out of inner impulse and uninfluenced. Then the human being on earth has already reached his aim .... he has submitted himself to God and completely relinquished his former resistance, he does not take a step alone but always with God, Who now ushers him into His eternal kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Natural disaster .... Good and bad people will fall prey ....

B.D. 3348 from November 27th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In their hour of greatest need many people will call upon God, yet not every call will come from the heart because the danger they are in will disable their ability to think, and thus they will merely address God with their lips and their prayer will fade away unheard. Only those who will be able to send their thoughts to Him, if only for a few moments, will be supported by God, either by rescuing them from bodily adversity or by still offering blessings to their soul before the end. Death should not always be considered the greatest evil, for if a person facing death has found his way to God as a result, it will have been an effective means for his salvation, which is more valuable than the preservation of physical life in spiritual darkness. And this is why countless people will soon lose their lives, partly as a warning to their fellow human beings and partly for the sake of their own spiritual hardship. But righteous people, too, whose life has come to an end according to God's will, will also be recalled from this earth. For where God Himself is recognisable, where the forces of nature, which are subject to God, are in turmoil, that is where His will determines who shall fall prey to this event .... Mature and immature people will have to leave this earth, yet if a soul has recognised God before its death its spiritual progress in the beyond will be guaranteed and the finished earthly life will only be a blessing. And the earthly adversity will be severe and still offer everyone the option of finding God .... for the natural event will announce itself in advance .... Unusual signs will indicate an unusual event so that every human being can still change his mind ahead of time, and through fellow human beings he will also be informed of the highest Authority, the Controller of heaven and earth, so that he will still have time and opportunity to join Him through heartfelt prayer ....

Yet then humanity's distance from God will be revealed for only a few will accept Him, only a few will turn to Him for protection and help in their fear and affliction. Most of them reject Him consciously and unconsciously; they watch the spectacle of nature only in hope of a speedy end and therefore the hour of adversity will hit them even more severely because they feel totally abandoned since they have no faith at all. However, even many of those who are distant from God will remain alive, to whom God will still offer the opportunity of gaining realisation afterwards .... Good and bad people will lose their lives, and good and bad people will stay alive, for this natural disaster is not a separation of the spirits as yet but only a last admonition prior to the final Judgment, from which all people shall derive psychological benefits. Even so, it is up to them how they will evaluate the last admonition .... they can gain realisation before or after the disastrous night but they can also keep their former frame of mind, and thus the big event will not have made any impression on their souls. And so, after that God-opposing people will actively aim to destroy all faith in God, and they will refer to this natural disaster as the strongest evidence of His non-existence, they will emerge as the greatest deniers of God from an event which was intended to lead them back to faith, and thus the battle will visibly erupt between those who became strong and faithful as a result of this event and those who survived it despite their unbelief; and thus everything will approach its end after the short time of grace granted to humanity before the last Judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

No knowledge, i.e. spiritual truth, without the will of man ....

B.D. 3349 from November 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The fact that spiritual knowledge is not imparted to the human being against his will is only advantageous for him, for then he would not use it properly and his guilt would only increase because he would then leave a gift of grace unused. He would also get into a state which would be equal to the compulsion of faith .... for knowledge would then force him to believe as soon as it is extraordinarily imparted to him, and a forced faith is worthless before God. Thus it inevitably first requires the human being's own will that God introduces him to truth, to spiritual knowledge, which is intended to promote his higher development. Therefore the knowledge will only become effective in him when his will demands it. He can certainly also acquire it beforehand through external transmission, through instruction by fellow human beings or through intellectual absorption from books and writings. But the will also has to be involved, the desire for truth has to dominate the human being, otherwise that good remains incomprehensible to him, thus it means no light for him. For if God were to impart light to the human being without his desire, then the striving towards God would be prevented but the human being would suddenly be placed into a state of knowledge, because divine wisdom .... the knowledge which corresponds to truth .... always means light for the human being. He would grasp everything, recognize the connection of all things and all events, and he would now also increase his degree of maturity .... thus he would inevitably become a mature being, but this would exclude his becoming perfect, for perfection requires complete free will. As soon as the human being is knowledgeable he is also permeated by light, thus flooded by divine strength; divine strength, however, can only be supplied to the beingness which consciously desires it and opens itself to the reception of strength. But the latter requires the will of man. If the will is not active, then also every supply of strength comes to a standstill, because God's radiation requires complete lack of resistance in order to become effective. But the human being is only then without resistance when he has placed his will completely under God's will, and that is a conscious activity of his will. Only then is an upward development possible, and only then will knowledge be felt by man as knowledge, as light and power from God. Thus knowledge cannot be imparted in a school-like manner, for even knowledge transmitted from person to person presupposes the human being's activity of will if knowledge is to come alive in him.

And therefore it is impossible to place the whole of humanity into a higher level of realization and thereby remedy the spiritual low, for this would happen against people's will and therefore would not result in their perfection either. And therefore truth, even if it is offered everywhere, will only assert itself sporadically, and that is where the will sets in and the desire to possess it. Knowledge against the human being's will only contributes to making him arrogant and domineering, for then it only touches the intellect but not the human being's heart, yet only where the heart and intellect are willing to let the knowledge take effect on them will the human being's transformation, his change into a being according to God's will, also begin. As long as the intellect alone processes the knowledge, this is only a body of thought that is inanimate from the spirit of God. It sets the activity of the intellect in motion and can also only be passed on again to the intellect of the fellow human being. The human being's will is only involved insofar as he strives for knowledge for the sake of earthly advantage .... He wants to be considered knowledgeable, to gain earthly goods and honour and fame with it and to outdo fellow human beings with his knowledge. And then knowledge, even if it is offered to him from a source which guarantees pure truth, can never contribute to the human being's ennoblement, for the heart remains uninvolved and the spirit in the human being does not stir, for it is unawakened, it still slumbers in deepest encasement. Then the knowledge, despite its content, cannot be addressed as spiritual knowledge because it was not imparted to him by the spirit within or he did not absorb with his spirit what was offered by the enlightened fellow human being. Mostly, however, the worldly-minded person will reject that spiritual knowledge because earthly success seems too small to him but he still strives for such. The working of the spirit can never be eliminated in the transmission of pure truth, of spiritual knowledge, and therefore the human being's will has to be active, otherwise the knowledge would be without strength and therefore of no significance for the human being's spiritual ascent. And therefore humanity walks in ignorance, and it cannot attain knowledge as long as it is not willing to possess and strive for it itself .... For the will is the first thing that causes God's grace to flow to the human being. But if the will is willing then the source of grace opens and the human being can constantly draw and take in the living water, the eternal truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Primordial beginning - end aim .... redemption process ....

B.D. 3350 from November 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The knowledge of the primordial beginning and the final aim of every work of creation is already to be recorded as spiritual progress, for only in a certain degree of maturity can this knowledge be offered to the human being. If this knowledge is imparted to a still immature human being he will reject it, it will not be comprehensible to him, and thus it remains completely without impression .... His state of maturity is not sufficient to let him recognize the truth, and consequently he still remains on a low level of maturity, i.e., he remains without realization of truth. The human being's degree of maturity is increased through unselfish activity of love, therefore a loving person will not reject this knowledge even if it is completely new to him and contradicts his previous thinking. For pure truth will always appear acceptable to a person who is in love, because it originates from God and the human being himself is in contact with God through his way of life. But God-connectedness enlightens his thinking, and this will come closer to the truth. Only with the knowledge of the primordial beginning and final aim of all created things does the soul's state begin to become full of light, for now the human being grasps the connection of all things, of all events; he grasps the connection of the creator with His creatures and of the spiritual kingdom with the earth. His knowledge becomes ever more extensive, his love for God constantly increases, for the knower must love God and want to belong to Him because he begins to recognize His great love. Knowledge is always an inner wealth, it moves the heart, it impels the soul to constantly increase this wealth, for once the human being has penetrated knowledge he is no longer satisfied but constantly desires to increase this knowledge. Spiritual knowledge makes the soul happy, it will always uplift the soul and therefore be aspired to by anyone who, through love, has reached a certain degree of maturity which enables him to receive spiritual knowledge ....

And once he has been introduced to this knowledge he can also be active in redemption and thus intervene in the process of redemption which wants to bring everything back to the state which was the original nature of the spiritual being .... highest perfection, freedom and power and love .... The knowledge of the primordial beginning and final aim of the spiritual in every work of creation, which can come to the being's consciousness again in the last stage as a human being, is already a degree of light, a partial state of freedom and strength. The human being is no longer in a dark spiritual night, nor has he completely fallen prey to God's adversary, he has already freed himself from his power through the working of love and only wrestles with him in moments of weakened will, for spiritual knowledge is an emanation of light and strength from God which enables him to escape his control .... Although spiritual knowledge appears unacceptable to the still completely immature human being and will therefore mostly meet with rejection, it should nevertheless also be brought to him so that it first stimulates his intellectual activity, so that it moves him to reflect. And depending on his willingness it can encourage him, it can spur him on to attain the degree of spiritual maturity which makes him capable of receiving knowledge which flows out of the spiritual kingdom and promotes spiritual ascent development. Light must be brought into the darkness of night, otherwise the human being could never be led out of the darkness, otherwise he would never find the right path that leads upwards. But only the knowledgeable can bring right light, only they are able to instruct the ignorant, and only where a certain degree of maturity has been reached can right knowledge be represented .... light from the heavens that shines radiantly .... the knowledge that provides comprehensible and comprehensive information about God's entire plan of salvation, about the meaning and purpose of creation and earthly life, about God's infinite, never diminishing love, about the binding and redeeming of all spiritual beings that once fell away from Him and about the final aim, eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. This knowledge is infinitely gratifying as soon as it is received in a certain degree of maturity, and although it is not yet fully effective it can nevertheless lead to the fellow human being striving to also reach the aim, a higher degree of maturity of the soul. For as soon as the human being knows what he once was and what he shall become again, he also attaches a different meaning to his earthly life, and he lives consciously, i.e. always with an aim in mind which he eagerly pursues. Then there will no longer be darkest night around him but the rays of light will break through and announce a day, a bright, clear day, which he can use for eager work, on which he can work in strength and freedom and thus participate in the great work of redemption ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's love and mercy .... depth ....

B.D. 3351 from November 30th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

This is the great mercy of God, that He lifts up to Himself the weak and fallen and lets it taste the delights of heaven. He does not leave it in the depths, but He Himself descends into the depths to offer His hand to the fallen and to lead it upwards. And that which does not openly resist Him also covers the path from the depth to the height, it changes, even if in an infinitely long time, into love and enters into intimate union with eternal love. However, it is not of its own strength but God's strength that works in the spiritual being striving upwards, and the fact that God supplies it with this strength is a grace .... It is proof of His never-ending love which will always and forever turn towards that which has emerged from Him. This love can never turn away from the created being but will always and forever apply to it, and this love demands an alignment of the being with God .... because such an alignment, a union with eternal love, triggers inconceivable beatitude. For this reason God will not condemn anything forever, only eternities can pass before the being has established its alignment with God and therefore has to languish in an agonizing state far away from God .... Eternities can pass where the being lacks all knowledge of God and this means a state of utmost darkness for the spiritual, which originally could dispose of strength in light and freedom which made it blissfully happy. And God wants to return this beatitude in the state of perfection to it again because His love and mercy know no limits. And therefore He first turns His grace towards him .... He gives him strength to live and to strive .... For this is a gift, since the being does nothing of its own accord to earn this supply of strength, instead, the being receives the strength and often does not even use it for the purpose this strength is intended to serve. The being fell through its own fault by turning its will towards God's adversary, yet it would never ever let its will become active in order to ascend again if God did not want to grant it His grace. God's love and mercy, however, does not leave the being in its self-inflicted state but He tries to help it ascend. And therefore He distributes grace upon grace which the being can use in the last stage according to its will. But freedom of will is often a danger because it is misused, because the will is used wrongly and this does not mean higher development. Yet again and again God's love is willing to impart His grace and His strength to the being .... because He does not want to leave in the abyss what does not strive upwards of its own accord .... He grasps what wants to be grasped, He does not force the beingness to follow Him, but again and again His love approaches it in order to motivate it to accept His help itself. For the created by Him was destined for beatitude and therefore remains in the abyss because it does not know about the beatitude of God's nearness .... because this is the characteristic of the sinking, that it lives in ignorance, that complete night surrounds the being and it cannot find its way out of its state of darkness by itself. And therefore the light itself comes into the depth, although not shining in its fullness, yet awakening a foreboding in the being so that it strives towards the light .... And this is grace which is never withdrawn from the being, the path to the light is always shown to it, only different in measure and effect according to its degree of maturity. But it is always the life energy which flows to the fallen being until it has reached a degree of maturity that it becomes aware of this life energy, that through it it can be active in free will, thus it can now also consciously strive upwards. For God's love continuously surrounds the beingness and helps it to reach its aim .... God's mercy seizes the unworthy and gives it new possibilities to become worthy of His love. And even if the beingness threatens to sink again and again because it opposes its own will to God's love and mercy .... it will be lifted up again and again, again and again God will place it on a level where it can start its ascent to the height itself, for He leaves nothing in the abyss .... His love never ever separates from His creations, and His creations are all beings which came into being with the help of His strength, even if His adversary's will was active during their creation and placed its God-opposing will into these beings. His love does not cease to lift and raise what has fallen, and His mercy determines Him to use ever new means in order to redeem the beings from darkness and to be able to introduce them into the kingdom of light, from which they have fled of their own free will in ignorance of their nature and their purpose. Yet God will lead them to this destiny again, even if endless times pass by .... for His love and mercy leaves nothing eternally in the abyss, He banishes nothing forever from His proximity which has belonged to Him since eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Childship to God .... Tremendous suffering on Earth ....

B.D. 3352 from December 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

In order to gain childship on earth the human being must shape himself into love and thereby enable himself to already establish union with God on earth, so that he will enter the spheres of light in a completely mature state when he passes away from earth. Hence his soul must have become so purified through kind-hearted activity that God Himself can take abode in it and his spirit unites with the Father-spirit. In that case the human being will have fulfilled his task on earth completely and achieved his goal and, as a being of light, will have found entry into the spiritual realm, where it will subsequently create and work. However, this degree of maturity necessitates a complete renunciation of material possessions .... This fusion with the eternal Deity is impossible as long as a person still clings to matter, since his heart is not entirely cleansed from cravings and therefore not yet prepared for the acceptance of the divine spirit. Then the human being will have to accept much suffering in order to accomplish the soul's final refinement, and therefore much suffering will be imposed upon extremely benevolent and devout people so that the soul's refinement can take place. Where people are burdened by particularly harsh suffering and nevertheless profound faith is displayed, the soul might have chosen a particularly difficult life for itself in order to attain the final goal on earth, the childship to God. This goal must be aspired to and reached on earth and will always necessitate the most arduous living conditions, because the soul must enter the kingdom of the beyond completely pure and unadulterated and this calls for a particularly effective process of purification. Suffering is always the means of help in order to attain the spiritual goal .... It shall lead towards God if the soul is still disinclined towards God, or it shall purify and crystallise the soul, so that it can come close to God as the purest being in order to be able to enter into the most blissful union with Him. Suffering and love must always work together towards deifying a person on earth; consequently, a loving human being should not fear suffering but humbly take it upon himself bearing in mind the high goal he can reach on earth, for he has chosen his earthly path himself in realisation that it will help him attain highest maturity if his will does not offer resistance.

Nevertheless, the delights of the childship to God make up for all suffering in earthly life a thousand fold. And the time on earth is short, it is like a moment in the span of eternity .... And as soon as a person is profoundly faithful he also can always receive the strength from God to endure everything that is imposed upon him, for then he will send his heartfelt prayer to God and God Himself will give him strength and make him a conqueror of life on earth .... God Himself will fetch His child if it has passed its test of earthly life and departs from earth as a pure being .... But his life on earth will always be characterised by love and suffering, because without it the soul will not be totally purified for admitting God into the human being's heart. This heartfelt bond with God must already take place on earth, otherwise the soul will not stand firm against the temptations of the world nor would it achieve total purification through suffering because it would lack the strength to bear the latter without complaining, and all grumbling or resisting still indicates a lack of complete submission to God's will. However, the soul must become as one with God .... It must have the most intimate bond with Him, it must want the suffering itself and also gratefully accept it as a gift from God in realisation that it pulls down the last barriers between God and itself and that only an overcoming of them will result in the highest bliss .... to become a child of God with all rights and duties .... This is every person's goal on earth but only a few attain it. Only a few are in such intimate contact with God through love that even in suffering they recognise His greater than great Fatherly love which would provide them with the most blissful fate in eternity .... Their fate on earth is not an enviable one, yet in the kingdom of the beyond they occupy the highest level .... They are in God's immediate vicinity and therefore indescribably happy, for they can act independently according to their will, which is also always God's will .... They can create and shape and, time and again, contribute towards the redemption of that which, still being distant from God, requires the most varied creations in order to advance their development. And this is the most blissful fate which fully compensates and makes up for the suffering of earthly life and should therefore be all people's goal on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promoting the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3353 from December 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Promote My kingdom without interruption and don't let yourselves be deterred by opposition or apathy. Humanity, in its dark spiritual state, is unable to recognize My gift and in it the one Who speaks to them; moreover, it is constantly influenced by a power which wants to distance them from Me, and their souls are weak and surrender to its influence. And consequently they reject what is offered to them by Me through you .... Yet your will shall not flag, your patience shall always come forth and your love shall have mercy on these souls. You shall help them in their spiritual adversity and again and again bring Me and My word close to them, for it will be a straw to which they will cling in the great adversity which still lies ahead. And depending on their willingness they will find their hold on it. What you sow can take root and yet still grow and bear fruit if the soil is well worked beforehand. And therefore I need you as My labourers on earth, for you should make the cultivation of the field your concern, you should not leave any opportunity unused where you can have an effect, you should take the spiritual hardship into account and allow the adversary's influence to be an explanation for people's repeated resistance. Yet your love and patience should not be diminished by this .... they are all My living creations whom I love, and they stray into darkness, they cannot release themselves because their will is still controlled by My adversary and because they are too weak to release themselves from him. Their souls are in great distress and their intellect cannot grasp this; and you shall help them to take a path full of light and therefore constantly advertise My kingdom. You shall proclaim My love to them and present My constant care for their spiritual well-being to them; and you shall preach love to them which brings them close to Me, so that they can also receive My strength .... the strength to detach themselves from the enemy of their souls. As soon as you can stimulate them into loving activity your work will not be unsuccessful and constant progress can be hoped for. And no matter how much they object at first, a seed will still remain in their heart which will sprout and spread in the time to come. And you should always remember this when you encounter resistance and the work for My kingdom seems fruitless to you. I am constantly at your side with My strength, and I Myself guide you to those who need your help, who are to be introduced into My kingdom and whom My love constantly surrounds, so that they will find their way back to Me, so that they will recognize Me and call upon Me in their adversity. And as soon as you can make them believe that their appeal to Me will not go unheard, you will be diligently active for My kingdom, for this faith can finally lead them back to Me in hours of greatest adversity, and then I can work Myself and make Myself known to them and have won them for eternity. For My love never ceases, and this love seeks to win every soul for My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Mental influence by beings of light ....

B.D. 3354 from December 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

As soon as a bearer of light in the beyond, an enlightened being, has managed to be heard by a person it will always stay close to him in order to influence his every thought, thus in order to instruct him constantly. Yet the human being's will is always decisive as to whether the light being's endeavours are successful. For although the being is powerful and would be able to take complete possession of the person's thoughts his freedom of will is not restricted, hence the information is never conveyed to him against his will. Consequently, the light beings' teaching activity requires extreme patience. Time and time again they have to direct a person's thoughts to a specific subject which they are ready to explain, and they may not become impatient when these thoughts digress. Their love for people has to be considerable in order to repeatedly muster understanding for their failings and not stop trying to arouse people's interest in spiritual knowledge. For this reason a person in intimate contact with the beings of light will also have a different mentality; despite the fact that he is not yet being instructed in an obvious manner he will spend much thought on spiritual subjects, and this contemplation will satisfy him since it will result in an agreeable answer. And then the beings of light will be able to move into action, they are always able to enter a person's train of thoughts, they are able to transfer their thoughts to people .... Yet it depends on the individual's receptiveness as to whether their effort and patience are successful, for the more willing he is the more attentively he listens within, that is, he takes notice of his thoughts, he will not discard them instantly but think them through, and only then can they become effective, thus move him into action .... to do what he was mentally advised to do.

If the human being has paid attention to these transmissions then the desire will also arise in him to tell his fellow human beings what he has heard, what he has spiritually received, for whatever moves him will also urge him to pass it on. And this in turn prepares his fellow human beings for the light beings' work on them, for as soon as another person listens to what he is told he also starts to think about it, and the being of light will again be able to intervene and provide food for thought in the form of mental questions and explanations.

All people are entrusted to such beings of light, all people are surrounded by them, and they pay attention to every thought. And as soon as the thoughts turn to spiritual matters, hence to things which are unrelated to earthly life, which do not concern the body but the human soul, the beings of light try to direct the thoughts onto the right track .... by mentally whispering the correct information, the answer to questions raised, so that they, having arisen in themselves, will be considered and, with good will, also be assessed. For the thought only becomes valuable when it is put into practice, when the mental advice is implemented accordingly. Yet the light beings' efforts are often in vain with many people because they only aspire to purely earthly things and have no interest in spiritual work or spiritual knowledge. In that case the beings of light are grateful for every support by way of a human mouth .... For the beings of light can neither visibly appear nor introduce people to the right knowledge against their will, but it is always the person's own will which allows or rejects the light beings' work on him. And the beings of light are subject to laws, because the human being's free will has to remain unaffected as not to make it impossible for the person to attain perfection.

For this reason the right knowledge can only be made accessible to people once they employ their own will, by willingly accepting the influence of the being which, as a representative of light, makes the knowledge available to them. Only then will the light beings surrounding a person be able to do their work, they will be able to instruct him mentally and provide him with information about every question that moves him. Then he will always be spiritually guided and looked after, and his thoughts will be led onto the right path, for the beings of light have much strength and authority at their disposal providing the human being's will does not resist their influence ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Ability to know and love God .... restriction of freedom .... state of ignorance .... free will .... power of life grace of God ....

B.D. 3355a from December 3rd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

God has certainly given people the ability to recognize Him but made this dependent on the individual's way of life, which he can lead according to his will. Thus the state of knowledge, of light, is also the result of his correctly used will, just as a wrong will results in a state of ignorance, of ignorance. Then the human being will not be able to make use of the ability given to him, he will indeed be able to think but with wrong results; the essence of the eternal deity will remain incomprehensible and unfathomable to him because it is love, omnipotence and wisdom and the human being with a wrong will will neither accept one nor the other because it is simply incomprehensible and therefore unacceptable to him. But if the human being does not recognize the eternal deity he cannot love it either, and therefore he does not seriously strive towards God either, for the spirit only seeks unity with that which it loves. But God wants people to love Him, to desire Him and strive for complete unity, and therefore He first tries to guide the human being into realization, and for this He requires free will, because everything achieved through compulsion is detrimental to the human being's soul. Love is absolutely necessary, only love brings knowledge to life, only through love is knowledge happy, and only through love is knowledge utilized. But the human being's love is a matter of will, and a human being is never forced into loving activity. But the ability to think remains primitive as soon as God recognizes that the human being's will is not turned towards Him and He withdraws His love and grace. Then his thinking will produce results which do not correspond to the pure truth which God Himself offers. Then the ability to think will only have an earthly effect, i.e. he will only use the gift of intellect to brood over earthly matters. But then one cannot speak of spiritual knowledge, and thus he will not use God's gift, the ability to recognize and love Him for the sake of His unsurpassability ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Ability to know and love God .... restriction of freedom .... state of ignorance .... free will .... power of life grace of God ....

B.D. 3355b from December 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Due to its distance from God, into which it has fallen as a result of its past apostasy from God, the being as such is no longer able to recognize God and therefore also incapable of loving Him. And it would never lose this deficient state, it would always remain in the same lack of realization if God did not want to grant it a gift of grace in the last stage of its embodiment on earth .... the strength of life, together with free will, which enables it to learn to recognize God if it uses it correctly, thus to enter a brighter state. The beingness itself does not feel its lack as long as it is completely without knowledge. Yet it cannot feel bliss either, instead, evil instincts prevail in it which drive it to constant rage against itself, i.e. which make its dark spiritual state ever more impenetrable and the being is thereby fettered, thus deprived of all freedom. But the being feels the restriction of freedom as agony, but it does not understand that it is only the consequence of lack of knowledge, because every connection remains hidden to it. And it is this ignorant state which first has to be remedied if the being is to cover the ascent to the height, to complete freedom and fullness of strength. However, knowledge, the realization of God and His reign and activity, cannot be imparted to it against its will, instead, the being must use its freedom of will itself so that its nature will change fundamentally, so that it will emerge from darkness into light and thereby regain its final freedom. The whole existence in the embodiment as a human being is to be regarded as a grace, for it is granted to the being even against its will, i.e., the being's will has been directed by God until this embodiment, the being is in a certain state of compulsion .... in subordination to God's will, which is expressed in natural law .... to a degree of maturity which earns him freedom of will in his last embodiment, combined with the ability to recognize what is going on around him and the connection between everything created and its eternal creator. This grace is granted to every human being, but whether he uses it depends on his will; because free will once turned away from it despite the realization of the eternal deity, it is imperative that this will now also becomes active in order to rejoin it, which can only happen after the realization of the eternal deity, because this is the prerequisite for the beingness to also be able to love God. And without love the union can never take place. Every human being on earth is offered the opportunity to recognize God and to learn to love Him, yet as long as his will still opposes God the state of darkness, ignorance and lack of knowledge cannot leave him. He first has to break the shackles himself through his will, he has to try to break through the cover himself, only then can he use his ability and penetrate knowledge and truth .... into cognition. And only then will he be able to love God with all his heart and strive for unity with Him, Who will make him the most blissful being for all times ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers